On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:30:30AM -0700, akuster808 wrote:
> On 9/12/19 7:28 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> I applaud those who take the time and effort of providing additional
> information in the commit messages.
>...
Blind pasting of the complete upstream changelog is not exactly an
effort that would warrant applause.
A short summary of the relevant parts might be useful, but when you are
asking to include details like
The 1892-05-01 transition in Brussels was at 00:17:30, not at noon.
that's only adding noise in "git log".
> > BTW: How is the legal handling of the metadata, when such lengthy
> > 3rd party texts copyrighted by various people under various
> > licences are distributed as part of the git metadata?
> Interesting question. Since I am not a lawyer,
I am also not a lawyer.
> maybe you can help guide
> the community so we do the right thing. Now I am worried about the
> stable branches,
> do backports have this same issue, are those 3-party texts?
Backporting does not make a difference here,
it is about under what licence the contents of the commit message is.
Pasting texts from elsewhere makes the licencing of the git metadata a
complete mess, like you cannot claim it is MIT if it contains text from
GPLv3 software.
A person using Signed-off-by also certifies that the whole contribution
is under an open source license, which would make pasting changelogs from
components that are not under an open source license clearly off-limits.
Not sure how much actual lawyers care about such issues,
but once something is in the git history it is too late.
> - armin
cu
Adrian
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