Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 6/29/26 11:37, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:25:52AM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 29 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
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>>> Just curious, why do you drop the author and copyright information? (can you
>>> even drop the Amazon copyright note?)
>>
>> Off topic, but I am curious how these copyright notices are supposed to
>> work in the first place. From what I have seen, the person who creates
>> the file normally adds one for themselves/their employer. But then other
>> contributors who make small/medium changes don't add theirs, even though
>> they should hold the copyright for the code they added. Bigger refactors>> sometimes add a notice but that isn't done consistently either.

Yes, I saw it on bigger stuff as well, but not on small stuff, really.

>>
>> So do these notices even hold any value? They certainly don't list all
>> the entities who hold the copyright to the code in the file. Only git
>> log can tell you that. Is there even any point in adding them?
> 
> It strikes me as a rather loose convention.
> 
> I am not a lawyer, but I would say that individual and corporate ownership of
> code are implied by S-o-b, not by comments in files.

Guess it gets interesting once the SOB does not carry that information. Also,
some people might work at company X (and send code from company mail address)
but may hold all copyright by themselves.

So even the git log cannot tell that story.

But in any case, I would expect a comment about that in the patch description :)

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Cheers,

David