Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> writes: > Em Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:38:58 -0700 > Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> escreveu: > >> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+hua...@kernel.org> writes: >> >> >> I also think you should give consideration to preserving the other >> copyright notices in the Perl version. A language translation doesn't >> remove existing copyrights...who knows how much creativity went into >> some of those regexes? > > Makes sense, but the copyrights at kernel-doc.pl: > > ## Copyright (c) 1998 Michael Zucchi, All Rights Reserved ## > ## Copyright (C) 2000, 1 Tim Waugh <twa...@redhat.com> ## > ## Copyright (C) 2001 Simon Huggins ## > ## Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Randy Dunlap ## > ## Copyright (C) 2012 Dan Luedtke ## > ## ## > ## #define enhancements by Armin Kuster <akus...@mvista.com> ## > ## Copyright (c) 2000 MontaVista Software, Inc. ## > # > # Copyright (C) 2022 Tomasz Warniełło (POD) > > Also doesn't preserve all copyrights from people that worked hard to > maintain it all over those years.
Agreed ... and I'm not sure what we can do about that. But *removing* existing copyright notices is a bit of a different story; that is generally considered to be fairly bad form. I don't have a problem with adding a longer credits area, I guess, if we want to do that (though it's not normal for other source files). But I'm not sure we need to. Thanks, jon
