Re: [Xen-devel] Signed-off-by again

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:24:20PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> So in the Linux system, it is OK for Keir to modify (not rewrite) and
> add his Signed-off-by after all.

You have to consider the intent: it's ok and reasonable for a
maintainer to adapt a patch in a trivial way for another change he has
in his tree (e.g., a function prototype changed), but it's neither ok
nor reasonable for the maintainer to rewrite the patch and keep the
original SOB.

As for the bad IP example - anyone who adds his SOB beyond the
original author is one of the maintainers, and maintainers are
implicitly trusted. If you have maintainers who start adding bad IP
...

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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