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Proper attribution is actually important though from a licensing standpoint. Contributors publish their patches under the GPL, but they retain the copyright. I
by armada651 3y ago
Proper attribution is actually important though from a licensing standpoint. Contributors publish their patches under the GPL, but they retain the copyright.
If an OSS project ever needs to change the license they will need to seek permission from each contributor. You can't relicense a project if you have some code that's submitted without proper attribution to the actual copyright holder.
- yencabulator 3y agoThe original patch, as submitted to the security email address, was not acceptable for use in the Linux kernel, as it was missing a Signed-off-by: line. The maintainer had written their own patch by the time the blog post author got around to sending their next email.
- ariel-miculas 3y agoThis is not true. I've sent subsequent patches to the PowerPC maintainer in private, there was no practical reason why he couldn't work with me instead of implementing his own version.
- yencabulator 3y agoSomeone said elsewhere on this forum that the time of the maintainer's commit is before any subsequent email from you. security@ is a fix-ASAP forum.