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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by lr1970 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:33AM (#37672758)
> We all like the feeling of credit, but this context is very important.

Exactly, this is why a field "co-authored-by:" is a nice middle ground that allows for providing partial credit to the original author while maintaining maintainer's freedom to rewrite the whole damn thing.

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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by yencabulator on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:17PM (#37684392)
Linux does not use Co-authored-by.

There was no Signed-off-by in the original patch, and the rules say Co-developed-by also requires a Signed-off-by.

It was a security issue and was fixed ASAP, not waiting to hear back from the submitter.

https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patche...

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