Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] snip my name and email

[Jan Kiszka]

On 21.02.19 17:05, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 2/21/19 9:53 AM, David Kiarie wrote:
> > the occurrence of my name and email on the files below may have led to
> > some confusion in the reporting of a few recent bugs.
> >
> > i have therefore choosen to snip it.
>
> Dropping an email from the copyright line makes sense; dropping the
> Copyright declaration altogether is a bit odd (the GPL works only in
> tandem with a copyright assertion) - but as you are the author of the
> line and copyright holder of your contributions, I am not in a position
> to say you are wrong in removing it, only that it looks odd.

Yeah, indeed.

David, also note that you probably have been addressed because 
scripts/get_maintainer.pl will look into the git history of files that some 
patch addresses and pick up significant and/or recent contributors from there. 
There should be some opt-out statement from that, but I don't recall how.

Jan

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