Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] snip my name and email

[David Kiarie]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:09 PM Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 21.02.19 17:05, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 2/21/19 9:53 AM, David Kiarie wrote:
> >> the occurrence of my name and email on the files below may have led to
> >> some confusion in the reporting of a few recent bugs.
> >>
> >> i have therefore choosen to snip it.
> >
> > Dropping an email from the copyright line makes sense; dropping the
> > Copyright declaration altogether is a bit odd (the GPL works only in
> > tandem with a copyright assertion) - but as you are the author of the
> > line and copyright holder of your contributions, I am not in a position
> > to say you are wrong in removing it, only that it looks odd.
> >
>
> Yeah, indeed.
>
> David, also note that you probably have been addressed because
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl will look into the git history of files that
> some
> patch addresses and pick up significant and/or recent contributors from
> there.
> There should be some opt-out statement from that, but I don't recall how.
>
>
Jan, Eblake, i respect your opinion but i still think my original patch
would have been best fit for the simple me.


> Jan
>
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