Error in recursive (c)

Posted May 23, 2004 15:50 UTC (Sun) by ccyoung (guest, #16340)
Parent article: Linus on documenting patch provenance

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and any modifications I might have made are certified by (a) and (b).

Otherwise, upstream people are not allowed to insert their two cents.

Error in recursive (c)

Posted May 23, 2004 17:36 UTC (Sun) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Case (c) is exclusively for when the intermediary is merely acting as a
channel for the content and certification. If the upstream person inserts
their two cents, they have to certify that those two cents are actually
theirs to insert, in which case, they use (a) or (b); the certification
they got for the original patch suffices as a reason to believe that the
original patch may be modified, even though those clauses don't
specifically mention this system.