Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] lib: Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:26:32 +0200

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:51:58AM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
> +/*
> + * Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table
> + *
> + * Copyright (c) 2014 Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/[email-masked]>
> + *
> + * Based on the following paper by Josh Triplett, Paul E. McKenney
> + * and Jonathan Walpole:
> + * https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Triplett.pdf
> + *
> + * Code partially derived from nft_hash:
> + * Copyright (c) 2008-2014 Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>

Minor request: german copyright law as an assumption of authorship for
authors marked in the work. When doing GPL enforcement I would prefer
any discussions about what derived from specifically means in this
case and whether this constitutes a normal statement of authorship,
and since this clearly contains a lot of literal code I have written,
please change this to something like

Copyright ... Thomas Graf
Copyright ... Patrick McHardy

...

Code partially derived from nft_hash.

Thanks!

> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */