Re: [PATCH net-next v6 04/23] zinc: ChaCha20 x86_64 implementation

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 29 September 2018 at 09:56, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:01:53AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> I was wondering about the ordering of these, actually. I've seen s-o-b
>> on top and s-o-b on bottom of the cc list in lots of commits and
>> haven't yet divined the One True Position.
>
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>
> section 12, first sentence.
>
> The SOB chain needs to clearly express the path of the patch from
> author(s) to the upstream kernel.
>

Note that this is the author of the *patch* not necessarily the author
of the code.

Anyone is free to submit patches adding code authored by others as
long as the author has made it available under a suitable license, and
this is actually the whole point of the S-o-B: you are stating to the
next guy that the code included in your patch was made available to
you under a compatible license.