[PATCH] Note inspiration for this script to give credit where it's due

[Denver Gingerich]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> There is some confusion in the Git log of this file.  Specifically,
> the commit message on 7b7f1702 incorrectly indicates that there was
> "potential fear" about copyright infringement.
> 
> Upon review of this situation, there is, in my opinion, no concern of
> copyright infringement here.  This is not legal advice; it is my
> opinion based of years of work on copyright policy for FOSS.
> 
> However, Elliott Mitchell's idea was obviously helpful as inspiration
> in writing this script and deserves credit.  Ideas alone, however,
> are not to my knowledge copyrightable anywhere in the world.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>

Please add my Signed-off-by line to this patch as well.  I was involved in the patch creation.

  Signed-off-by: Denver Gingerich <denver at sfconservancy.org>

> ---
>  scripts/kernel_bump.sh | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kernel_bump.sh b/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> index b1c17d6c39..03e809eedc 100755
> --- a/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> +++ b/scripts/kernel_bump.sh
> @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>  #
>  # Copyright (C) 2024 Olliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
> +#
> +# This script was implemented from scratch -- inspired by ideas shared
> +# with the OpenWrt project by Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com>
>  
>  set -eu
>  if [ -n "${DEBUG_TRACE_SH:-}" ] && \
> -- 
> 2.30.2

If the community would like any additional formalities to include this Signed-off-by line, I'm happy to complete those.

Denver Gingerich
Director of Compliance
Software Freedom Conservancy