Re: [PATCH] libfdt: add address translation support

[David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:53:54AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Apr 1, 2014, at 11:43 PM, David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:59:43PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Rob Herring <robherring2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Ben Herrenschmidt. Who is the copyright holder on a file in the kernel
> >>> with no copyright? Does this default to the author or Linus or nobody?
> >> 
> >> In the absence of a formal, written conveyance of the Copyright, it belongs
> >> to the author(s) of that file.
> > 
> > It might depend on jurisdiction, but I don't believe presence or
> > absence of a copyright notice actually changes who holds the
> > copyright.  It just makes it easier or harder to figure out who htat
> > is.
> 
> Pedantically correct. In the US copyright can only be transferred in writing.
> Most other countries are similar, but there is still variation despite the attempts
> to make it completely uniform. But the important bit is that there’s no “default”
> author in copyright law if one fails to document the author. It doesn’t go to
> Torvalds or The Linux Foundation or the Easter Bunny. The original author
> is the person who wrote it, or if it was a work for hire or such a contract exists
> then the employer of the person who wrote it. Just to add more wrinkles to
> the mix.

Right, we are in agreement.

I'm sorry, I misread your initial comment as referring to a copyright
notice, rather than a separate conveyance of copyright.

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