Hi, If I remember correctly. Copyright of patman is Chromium OS Authors, but this code is not managed in Chromium. I can see this as being managed by U-Boot.
http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay.git;a=blobdiff;f=dev-vcs/patman/patman-0.0.1-r93.ebuild;fp=dev-vcs/patman/patman-0.0.1-r93.ebuild;h=e95674669c1dda16048d8f77b8aec3114d092c81;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=6e34f74cf076c2682016b38d3f498c12092ca256;hpb=e160f96605cf0d3066e0b86e20511fe7f3d2e447 Patman has been contributed into the U-boot by a Chromium OS developer. Therefore, will the copywrite like this. I think I's and U-Boot is the developer of patman. Best regards, Nobuhiro 2013/11/5 Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk>: > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 22:46 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:28:53AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: >> > U-Boot has tool patman which can simplify the exchanges of the patch >> > using git (in u-boot/tools/patman). >> > I want to provide this with u-boot-tools or other packages. >> >> At a brief glance, it's a tool for generating patchsets from git? >> >> This doesn't really seem to be specific to u-boot in any way, just happens >> to be a utility shipped with u-boot upstream... It might make more >> sense as it's own source package? > > It looks like it is already a clone (and hack?) from somewhere else: > $ head -n1 tools/patman/README > # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. > > I wouldn't be at all surprised if it incorporated knowledge specific to > the u-boot workflow (and the original version stuff for Chromium OS) and > wasn't a completely general purpose tool. > > If that is the case then it seems that anyone who wishes to use it > surely has a u-boot source tree around to run it from. > > If it is not the case then I would think upstream git would be a better > home, or at least a separate project/source package as you suggest. > > Ian. > > -- Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org} GPG ID: 40AD1FA6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
