From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:47:53 GMT Subject: Re: On Sponsor Notices Message-ID: <20080924234753.GE10360@machine.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <46a038f90809241643i1e366dfbtea8dbdd9a1bc1de5@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43:52AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: > > However, I'm not sure if acknowledging the Novartis-originated patches > > in the log message like this is the best practice and we will understand > > if the maintainers will decide to strip these notices when applying the > > patches. > > AIUI, the signed-off-by line is meant to track this, and it serves > both legal purposes and a as recognition. That works fine when it is signed off by employers using their company e-mail, but that is not feasible in my case - what should be in the Signed-off-line? Name of the company? What about the e-mail? Some generic e-mail of the legal department? That doesn't really work well with all the machinery developed around s-o-b lines, besides the question does not seem to be by far that simple with such a huge corporation. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.