Re: [PATCH] Remove soon to be dead email address

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Jul 11 2014 - 12:24:56 EST


Hi Peter,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > My Red Hat email address will soon cease to be; remove it from the
>> > tree in order to save the interweb some bounces.
>>
>> > --- a/include/linux/jump_label.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/jump_label.h
>> > @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
>> > /*
>> > * Jump label support
>> > *
>> > - * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > - * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > + * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Red Hat, Inc., Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Change not mentioned in comment (there are a few more of these).
>>
>> > + * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra
>
> Oh, right.. my bad. I should also have Cc'ed Jason I suppose.
>
> The thing is, those were copyright RedHat (implicitly by the @redhat and
> my copyright assingment to employer at the time etc..) But if I remove
> the email address there is nothing that reflects that.

Sure, the changes for lines with your name were implied by dropping the
email address.

> The same is true for Jason, but let me copy him.

That's the one I meant.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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