Re: [PATCH] Add missing license and copyright statements to public interface headers.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:42:14PM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 08:00:28AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 09/18/2015 04:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 13:53 +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> > > >
> > > >A few words here about the methodology you used to determine the names to
> > > >use would be useful to people looking back on this stuff in the future.
> > > >
> > > >Also it would be sensible to CC everyone whose name you are adding. I've
> > > >added Keir since you already Ccd Boris and I didn't see any other names
> > > >after a quick glance.
> > > 
> > > For changes that include my name (pmu files)
> > > Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> > 
> > Nack. Sorry Boris.
> > 
> > Let me send an email to legal to make sure I am not spouting
> > nonsense. But in the meantime my understanding is that:
> > 
> >  Copyright (c) 2015 X,Y
> > 
> > means that the copyright (ownership of intellectual property)
> > is owned by both X and Y.
> > 
> > However we (Boris, and me) both signed this fancy document saying
> > that any work we do is owned by Oracle. It is OK to state
> > the authorship, but the ownership is Oracle's.
> > 
> > If it was
> > 
> >  Copyright (c) 2015 X
> > 
> >  Author: Y
> > 
> > Then that is OK.
> 
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> Any luck getting this sorted out?


Yes.

Copyright (c) 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.


And no authorship.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> > > 
> > > Not sure about format --- files in public directory largely use the same
> > > format as what Mike is suggesting here but most of newer files do what
> > > Konrad said (i.e. "Author" on a separate line).
> > > 
> > > We will also want to apply similar patch to Linux tree (once this is done).
> > > Mike, do you mind doing it too?
> > > 
> > > -boris
> > >