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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] rt2x00: Update copyright statements.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:25:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911081525.58809.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257689905-1611-1-git-send-email-gwingerde@gmail.com>

On Sunday 08 November 2009, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> As mentioned on the linux-wireless mailing list, the current copyright statements in the rt2x00 are
> meaningless, as the rt2x00 project is not even a formal legal entity. Therefore it is better to replace
> the existing copyright statements with copyright statements for the people that actually wrote the code.
> 
> Note: Updated to the best of my knowledge with respect to who contributed considerable amounts of code.

...

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig
> index b0f4a2f..5322852 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ config RT2800PCI_SOC
>  
>  config RT2800PCI
>  	tristate "Ralink rt2800 (PCI/PCMCIA) support (BROKEN)"
> -	depends on (RT2800PCI_PCI || RT2800PCI_SOC) && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN
> +	depends on (RT2800PCI_PCI || RT2800PCI_SOC) && EXPERIMENTAL
>  	select RT2800_LIB
>  	select RT2X00_LIB_PCI if RT2800PCI_PCI
>  	select RT2X00_LIB_SOC if RT2800PCI_SOC

You can omit this part of your patch. ;)

>  	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
> index 5c7d74a..3207b83 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
> @@ -3,7 +3,13 @@
>  
>  	Based on the original rt2800pci.c and rt2800usb.c:
>  
> -	  Copyright (C) 2004 - 2009 rt2x00 SourceForge Project
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Mark Asselstine <asselsm@gmail.com>
> +	  Copyright (C) 2009 Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
>  	  <http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com>
>  
>  	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

If Bartlomiej has no objections, we could just update the statements for rt2800lib.c/rt2800lib.h
to something similar as rt2800.h:

/*
	Copyright (C) 2009 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
	Copyright (C) 2009 Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Mark Asselstine <asselsm@gmail.com>
	Copyright (C) 2009 Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
....

because not sure if we need the seperate "based on" comment.. But I'll let Bartlomiej
decide on this one.

For the the remaining part:

Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>

Ivo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-08 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-08 14:18 [PATCH 7/7] rt2x00: Update copyright statements Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-08 14:24 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-08 14:25 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2009-11-08 14:42   ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-08 14:48   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-08 14:54     ` Ivo van Doorn
2009-11-08 14:58       ` [rt2x00-users] " Luis Correia
2009-11-08 15:05     ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2009-11-08 15:15       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-08 15:27         ` Gertjan van Wingerde

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