From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 68.mail-out.ovh.net ([91.121.185.69]) by canuck.infradead.org with smtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1P3AHP-0002KY-Lw for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:22:17 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:20:19 +0200 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Message-ID: <20101005162019.GK25320@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <20101005135213.24F871539A0@gemini.denx.de> <20101005160042.GI25320@game.jcrosoft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101005160042.GI25320@game.jcrosoft.org> 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: Re: Code "borrowed" without attribution to original authors To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org On 18:00 Tue 05 Oct , Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 15:52 Tue 05 Oct , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > 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 for the record the two are not borrowed at all from U-Boot but done based on barebox and as we all known the uImage format come from U-Boot I just sync it recently without commit details as we do for Kconfig we do not trac modifications details and we respect the copyright. SO I'll repeat myself if Marian copyright is missing We will add it with pleasure. Best Regards, J. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox