From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1P37wH-00037h-UF for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:52:19 +0000 From: Wolfgang Denk MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:52:13 +0200 Message-Id: <20101005135213.24F871539A0@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Code "borrowed" without attribution to original authors To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD , Sascha Hauer Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org Hello, it has been brought to my attention that lately a number of commits have been added to the BareBox repository (and released as BareBox v2010.10.0) that contain literal copies of hundreds of lines of code taken from the U-Boot project. While this is OK in general (U-Boot is covered by the GPLv2/GPLv2+), in this case the code has been added to the BareBox repository without any attribution to the original authors. Instead, the respective commits carry only SoB lines like these: Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer Commits that very clearly show this problem are for example: d424ce7 image: factorise image printing contents 0ceafe1 Replace direct header access with the API routines aba80a2 image: rename IH_CPU to IH_ARCH to be more concistant 7bd7d59 image: factorise string helper In the examples given, most of the copied code was actually written by Marian Balakowicz and should be attributed to him. Neither Jean-Christophe nor Sascha have any credits on that code. We all have been working long enough in free and open source software projects that I can assume you are well aware of the basic principles of open source software licensing and the requirement to attribute code to its original authors. Jean-Christophe, may I please ask you to stop copying code from other projects without proper attribution? Sascha, may I please ask you to make sure that proper attribution of all such copied code gets added to the BareBox repository and released code? [Please make sure to keep me on cc: to any replies as I am not subscribed to the BareBox mailing list.] Thanks. Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de By the way, ALL software projects are done by iterative prototyping. Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox