Re: [tip:core/locking] lockdep, rtmutex, bug: Show taint flags onerror

[Alan Cox]

> FYI, there's no "I will only sign off on a patch doing two 
> things if it's applied in full" kind of condition in the SOB 
> definition, allowing that would break the GPL: people have the 
> right to take your modifications to the GPL-ed kernel and modify 
> it further.

That gets into moral rights, and at least in the EU representing someone
as the author of something they are not isn't a good idea even before you
get to any contractual or licensing questions. I don't believe the EU is
unusual in this point either.

Alan
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