Re: On Sponsor Notices

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sep 25, 2008, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809242233360.14631@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080924225120.GL10544@machine.or.cz>

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

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>   Hi,
> 
>   to follow up a little on the "This patch has been sponsored by
> Novartis" messages - I have been on a summer internship at Novartis busy
> deploying Git and these patches (still quite a few more to come, mostly
> for gitweb) have been one of the main outputs of that work.
> 
>   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. Usually, this kind of acknowledgement is made by using
> "sponsored" email addresses, however mine will probably stop working
> shortly after I leave and the only way to read it is, shall we say,
> utmostly inconvenient. ;-) Now, Shawn has proposed 'Sponsored-by:' line
> at the header footer, which is also an interesting possibility.

I'd suggest you do like some people working on the Linux kernel, i.e. use your employer's email address for the Signed-off-by line but use whatever address you prefer for the from/author line.

Nicolas