I see which email thread you mean now. AFAICS OP submitted the patch with a proper sign-off again approximately 6 hours after they were told the sign off was mi

I see which email thread you mean now. AFAICS OP submitted the patch with a proper sign-off again approximately 6 hours after they were told the sign off was missing. So I don't see how that could have been an issue. The maintainers patch is from more than a week later. > Yes, and that was one of the reasons the maintainer rewrote it (which wasn't a lot of work since it was a tiny patch anyway). I don't think a simple rewrite is enough to convincingly solve the described problem. There is a reason "clean room design" exists and considering the maintainer read the original patch first before creating their own there is a good argument that they were at least subconsciously inspired by the original patch and therefore plagiarized. That is how I understand the legal aspects of this, anyway.