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Documenting kernel code provenance

Posted May 27, 2004 16:15 UTC (Thu) by jeffg (guest, #20473)
Parent article: Documenting kernel code provenance

for nasty legal/patent purposes shouldn't this line:
Signed-off-by: Some kernel hacker <skh@some.host>
also have a time-stamp? i know all my lab books have
to be dated for that reason [shrug]

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Posted May 27, 2004 17:44 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

Yes, and the time-stamp would be quite valuable in documenting prior art for patent fights.