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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	thomas@monjalon.net, arybchenko@solarflare.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_net: define TCP flags in rte_tcp.h instead of in rte_eth_ctrl.h
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 18:00:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81579a34-1685-ce1a-f16f-fa0faed3706f@intel.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190513170007.vx3Px6mucvU9h58CmCoP6RohB8-uVb4N0MaON1wpMKs@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35B4284A@smartserver.smartshare.dk>

On 5/13/2019 4:15 PM, Morten Brørup wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 4:47 PM
>> To: Morten Brørup
>> Cc: Olivier Matz; thomas@monjalon.net; ferruh.yigit@intel.com;
>> arybchenko@solarflare.com; dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_net: define TCP flags in rte_tcp.h
>> instead of in rte_eth_ctrl.h
>>
>> On Mon, 13 May 2019 15:02:57 +0200
>> Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO, adding the copyright for flags move is a bit overkill.
>>>
>>> I also added the two ECN flags and descriptions of all the flags. And
>> removed the misleading ALL flag.
>>>
>>> I don't know the formal or customary threshold criteria for adding a
>> copyright notice, so I just added it. It's our first direct contribution
>> where we didn't just send the corrections to another contributor, so I
>> thought it would be nice to have our name in here. You're the maintainer,
>> so I'll leave the final decision up to you.
>>
>> Most projects including DPDK do not add additional copyrights unless it
>> is a complete rewrite. Please don't clutter the code with this stuff.
> 
> That's a quite clear threshold definition, and my modifications clearly don't fall into this category.

I think in the past threshold has been mentioned as "significant contribution",
although this is kind of vague, it sounds lighter than "complete rewrite",
anyway I agree for this patch it looks overkill to claim the copyright.

> 
> Med venlig hilsen / kind regards
> - Morten Brørup
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10 17:34 Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 17:34 ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-13 11:54 ` Olivier Matz
2019-05-13 11:54   ` Olivier Matz
2019-05-13 13:02   ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-13 13:02     ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-13 14:47     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-13 14:47       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-13 15:15       ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-13 15:15         ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-13 17:00         ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2019-05-13 17:00           ` Ferruh Yigit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-10 17:10 Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 17:10 ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 16:10 Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 16:10 ` Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 14:10 Morten Brørup
2019-05-10 14:10 ` Morten Brørup

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