Make sense Kai! On 15:30 Wed 22 May , Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >Hello, all: > >It is common courtesy to include this tagline when submitting patches: > >Reported-By: J. Doe > >Please ask the reporter's permission before doing so (even if they'd >submitted a public bugzilla report or sent a report to the mailing >list). They need to understand and agree that: > >- their name and email address will become a permanent, non-excisable > part of the Linux Kernel git history >- their name and email address will be stored on multiple public > archival copies of the linux kernel mailing list, collected and > managed by different legal entities > >With or without GDPR laws, this is something the reporter needs to be >aware of and they need to be okay with it, as a matter of courtesy. > >-K