From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:53429 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752847Ab0C2VvR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:51:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] generic arm for MSM try2 From: Catalin Marinas In-Reply-To: <1269894478.17124.32.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> References: <1269560155.21793.89.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100328214901.GA8614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269881777.17124.5.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100329172841.GD28468@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1269894478.17124.32.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:50:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1269899459.2038.22.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Daniel Walker Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:27 +0100, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:28 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Catalin, as the apparant author of this file, do you have a view on this? > > Looking at this file again, I don't think anyone could copyright > anything in this file prior to us adding stuff .. It's like 4 lines of > assembly prior to us adding 13 lines .. I don't think the amount of lines matter wrt GPL. I agree that the existing 4 lines aren't anything important but if you consider them as part of a bigger patch (commit bbe88886), they are not so insignificant. I don't care much about these four lines, it's just a matter of principle. If you want, you can add something like (the GPL preamble is fine): * ... * Copyright (C) 2007 ARM Ltd. * Copyright (C) 2010 Code Aurora Forum. The reason why I haven't added a header is because this file was most likely derived from abort-ev6.S (probably originating from Deep Blue Solutions - that's the "..." part above). Personally, I wouldn't bother with adding a copyright header for 13 lines but your legal department may have a different view. Note - that's my personal view only, the copyright of the work I produce belongs to ARM Ltd. -- Catalin