On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:34:43PM +0200, Daniel Kochmański wrote: > Dear all, > > to my great detriment I've recently noticed, that Sunxi SPL NAND support > I've been working very hard to upstream has been lately reverted. I was > surprised, that nobody has acknowledged me about that. > > Namely I'm talking about commit: > da9971d1b3bdb554d4a4ac948119f8b2616bbcce
For reference: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=da9971d1b3bdb554d4a4ac948119f8b2616bbcce Which refers to http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f76eba38b3eda905ff3bdc18dd1240d3dcbc6e5a > I guess it was an act of my dishonest ex-employer, with whom we have now > legal issue about copyrights on above-mentioned driver. In January 2015 > I was granted with the permission to upstream the code to Das U-Boot > from my ex-employer and sent set of patches which I hadn't time to work > with later (note the copyrights on nand driver): > > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com/msg09354.html > > After this job I have finally had time to finish this work (which is > based on already published code from January 5th). It didn't took long, > when Antmicro send me a legal paper with claims that I infract their > copyrights – what isn't true. This dispute is still pending on the legal > ground. > > I have no words for such a meanness from my previous employer – to give > permission to upstream code and then, for probably the some business > reasons, deny their own words. This is really tawdry. Please, to all sides, don't drag the community into this. What I want to note is that in the offending commit from Daniel there is _not_ a Signed-off-by line from Daniel, and for a non-trivial contribution like this, that should not have been merged, regardless of the legal status of the code between Daniel and Antmicro. No Signed-off-by line on a large contribution? Should not be merged, period. -- Tom
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