From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin P. Mattock" Subject: Re: [RFC 6/9]drivers:char:nvram.c Change the copyright info. Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:54:07 -0700 Message-ID: <4E17524F.3020000@gmail.com> References: <1290838879-11038-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <1290838879-11038-7-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-ide-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mtd-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 07/08/2011 09:33 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> Change the copyright info from Sun Microsystems to Oracle since Oracle now owns them. >> >> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock >> >> --- >> drivers/char/nvram.c | 2 +- >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c >> index 166f1e7..33e8faa 100644 >> --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c >> +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ >> * >> * Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek >> * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek >> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin-xsfywfwIY+M@public.gmane.org) >> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin-xsfywfwIY+M@public.gmane.org) >> * >> * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in >> * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into > > You can't just change other people/company copyright. > > This will need Signoff from the original copyright holder at least. > yeah I think somebody from oracle had already told me this the day I had sent these out. from what I remember here is the original thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/27/31 so somebody from oracle needs to claim this, and the rest of the kernel! Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html