Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
From: Tigran Aivazian
Date: Sat Dec 02 2006 - 16:09:08 EST
Hi Adrian,
I have only now had time to read your patch and reject most of it --- the
email addresses in the revision histories etc are for historical purposes
and as such are very useful. They are NOT meant to be valid except at the
moment of time when they are written. The only purpose of email address in
the revision history is the indication where the person worked _at the
time_.
The only bits that should be made sure to remain valid are the
MODULE_AUTHOR, as Arjan also mentioned.
Also, it is very strange that I have _not_ received your original email
containing the patch --- I only saw it now via lkml archive.
Kind regards
Tigran
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
I am curious, what's the point?
These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses
were at that point.
.. and which company owns the copyright.
...
Email addresses aren't good for this kind of information.
As an example, what is stusta.de and does it have any rights on my
contributions? [1]
cu
Adrian
[1] it can't own the copyright since in Germany the copyright belongs
untransferably [2] to the author [3]
[2] except for heritage
[3] but he can give exclusive usage rights for known kinds of usage
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