On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> There is some confusion in the Git log of this file. Specifically,
> the commit message on 7b7f1702 incorrectly indicates that there was
> "potential fear" about copyright infringement.
>
> Upon review of this situation, there is, in my opinion, no concern of
> copyright infringement here. This is not legal advice; it is my
> opinion based of years of work on copyright policy for FOSS.
>
> However, Elliott Mitchell's idea was obviously helpful as inspiration
> in writing this script and deserves credit. Ideas alone, however,
> are not to my knowledge copyrightable anywhere in the world.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@sfconservancy.org>
Please add my Signed-off-by line to this patch as well. I was involved in the
patch creation.
Signed-off-by: Denver Gingerich <den...@sfconservancy.org>
> ---
> scripts/kernel_bump.sh | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kernel_bump.sh b/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> index b1c17d6c39..03e809eedc 100755
> --- a/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2024 Olliver Schinagl <oli...@schinagl.nl>
> +#
> +# This script was implemented from scratch -- inspired by ideas shared
> +# with the OpenWrt project by Elliott Mitchell <ehem+open...@m5p.com>
>
> set -eu
> if [ -n "${DEBUG_TRACE_SH:-}" ] && \
> --
> 2.30.2
If the community would like any additional formalities to include this
Signed-off-by line, I'm happy to complete those.
Denver Gingerich
Director of Compliance
Software Freedom Conservancy
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