Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] lib: Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table

From: Thomas Graf
Date: Fri Aug 01 2014 - 06:33:03 EST


On 08/01/14 at 12:26pm, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:51:58AM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
> > +/*
> > + * Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (c) 2014 Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
> > + *
> > + * Based on the following paper by Josh Triplett, Paul E. McKenney
> > + * and Jonathan Walpole:
> > + * https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Triplett.pdf
> > + *
> > + * Code partially derived from nft_hash:
> > + * Copyright (c) 2008-2014 Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Minor request: german copyright law as an assumption of authorship for
> authors marked in the work. When doing GPL enforcement I would prefer
> any discussions about what derived from specifically means in this
> case and whether this constitutes a normal statement of authorship,
> and since this clearly contains a lot of literal code I have written,
> please change this to something like
>
> Copyright ... Thomas Graf
> Copyright ... Patrick McHardy
>
> ...
>
> Code partially derived from nft_hash.
>
> Thanks!

Sure, it was not my intention to hide ownership in any way.
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