On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:58:45PM +0000, Matt Ochs wrote: > On May 8, 2025, at 4:00 AM, Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > That was all present in my patch from earlier this year[1], which > > this one is clearly based on. > > > > And "based on" is a very generous term in this case, since what the > > author appears to have done is take it outright, leaving the commit > > message completely unchanged, ripping out the original authorship and > > reposting it as their own - with some fresh new bugs sprinkled in for > > good measure. Which needless to say is not just highly questionable > > from a legal standpoint but also just deeply, deeply uncool. > > > > I'm going to assume that this was done with no ill intent behind it, > > especially since by CCing me to the series they did the exact > > opposite of trying to cover their tracks ;) > > > > Still, this contribution is completely unacceptable due to both > > technical and legal factors and should be disregarded. > > My sincere apologies, this was my first time trying to refresh a series > like this and I obviously went about it the wrong way. I commit to getting > it right next time.
Apologies accepted with no reservations or grudges on my end. We're cool. But I felt that it was critical to stress the importance of getting authorship and attribution right - open source doesn't mean that it's a free for all. Lesson learned, let's move on :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
