Dear Wolfgang, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:56:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: [...] > If you don't do that, then either somebody else will clean up your > patch and commit it and earn the credits for your work, or nobody will > care and the problem remains, which means your work was basicly > wasted.
that was why I wrote now, because it seemed to me that the latter might happen in the current case. But maybe I misunderstood Renatos intention here. [...] > Um... and instead of maintaining several private source trees you > should consider poushing your code upstream, so that others do the > maintenance for you. The intention is to do so with my next project at work - but again it depends on how much time is left after sorting out all the low-level hard- and software bugs. > You get the credit by being the author of the commit, and by your > Signed-off-by: line in it. "git log" will show it, "git blame" will > show it, and you will find your place in the U-Boot statistics page, > too. You do not have any entitlement on a (C) Copyright entry in a > bigger source file if you change just a few lines in it. That's not > reasonable. Thanks for clearing this up. Best regards, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot