Re: Multiple patch authors

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/25/2012 06:59 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:56:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > No, SOBs are to document patch forwarding. Co-authorship can be
> > expressed a number of ways, such as:
> >
> > Based-on-patch-from: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > and/or by adding you as a copyright holder to one of the files.
>
> Ok, let's hold this down in writing for future reference and in case I
> forget (which will happen, most probably :-)).

I have also used:

Originally-by:

... for a patch originally written by one person but then extensively 
reworked to the point of not really being the same work.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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