Re: [GIT PULL] generic arm for MSM try2

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:10 +0100, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 22:50 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> I were to add this what would I add for the "..." since there's nothing
> in abort-ev6.S either.. None of the abort files appear to have
> copyrights.

That's why I haven't added one either :). I think you can add Deep Blue
Solutions Ltd as well, unless Russell has any objections. But it's funny
for such a small file to have three copyright holders.

-- 
Catalin