[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-694443519 > > > Please see #1834 > > I know @PeterBee97 started some of this work but to be honest it was quite difficult for me to take advantage of those, considering

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-694425754 > I've been writing some scripts which convert the output of git log (over a given file) into JSON format, to obtain metadata for each revision of the file. The final JSON

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-691787646 > Let's clear the license for the files we own first. I think it is OK > to have some files under compatibile licenses for a ASF project. You > just need to

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-691735973 > We can only operate on the information we have. If authorship information was lost from CVS and SVN era (git author is Greg) and the header does not list anyone else than

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-691732515 > Take care with this. The copyright holder in source may or may not be the correct one. Similarly, the author in GIT may not be the author of the file. Often the

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-691583608 > Any updates here? I think this is only blocker issue to prevert us > graduate, let's try to make progress. > It seems to me that there are people who have

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-683305652 > In most cases, the author of those early changes will be noted as an author or copyright holder in the BSD license header. In fact, I think that is true of all

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-683302367 My recollection is not 100% clear, but I am recalling that @justinmclean mentioned in very early phases of this project that there were some legacy changes that could be

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-670313426 > * I manually made a [list of committers](https://github.com/starcat-io/incubator-nuttx/blob/feature/license-clearing-tools/tools/license-clearing/committers.txt)

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-670308710 > I cloned the bitbucket repo today but the git log seems to be the same with that on GitHub... Yes, the Bitbucket repositories are read-only mirrors of the incubator

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-669332170 > If do `git log --reverse` and search for ' by ' I find commits like this "by" or "from" would both be good search keys. I also recorded the authors in the old

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-669330753 > Bugfixes submitted by David Hewson David Hewson I know. We are connected on LinkedIn. He just started working for HPE. He did a some of the LPC31 port in the 2010

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-669292767 This is also informative: git log | grep author The will produce over 30 thousand lines but you clearly see that the last several thousand commits have author:

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-668982061 > > @patacongo Are the original CVS and SVN archives saved anywhere? No This is an automated

[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] patacongo commented on issue #128: IP Clearance

patacongo commented on issue #128: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/128#issuecomment-668979136 > @PeterBee97 Cool, thanks??? I didn't > realize the script already used git to find the authors, sorry for > missing that. We will