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 _significant_ early code contributions. I can think of one very frequent case where this is not true. In many cases, people clone files from one location to another. This is particularly true under arch/ and boards/. You will discover many files that I wrote, that have me as the copyright holder and author but GIT will claim, incorrectly, that the person doing the PR/patch was the author. This will apply to several hundred files. There are cases where the info in the license header is more accurate than in the file header. Third party code brought into the OS will have the same issue. The true author of the code is in the license header, not in the GIT log. And there are places where people make mistakes in copying files without updating the license headers. For example, under net/ there are a few files that include some small bits of logic from Adam Dunkels. I see that those files with headers have been cloned numerous times and most are no longer correct. Adam Dunkels is not the author of any of the files under net/ (except perhaps some logic under net/sixlowpan and the TCP state machine and even those are very highly customized). It is all very complex and we cannot expect to get it all 100% correct. I think we just have to keep a high level of integrity and do our best effort to discover and document all authorship. I think the point is that GIT authors may not agree with the authorship in the license header and those will all need some clarification. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
