Re: [patch 1/4] lockdep: variuos fixes

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:17 +0530, debian developer wrote:

> On 6/12/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/lockdep.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/lockdep.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/lockdep.c
> > @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
> >   *
> >   * Started by Ingo Molnar:
> >   *
> > - *  Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > + *  Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > + *  Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
> >   *
> >   * this code maps all the lock dependencies as they occur in a live kernel
> >   * and will warn about the following classes of locking bugs:

> What exactly is being copyright'ed here?

Thanks for being triply impolite! You score: anonymous, top-posting and
dropping CC-lists.

The code in these files, as in most other files in the Linux kernel, is
copyrighted. The code is Licensed under GPLv2, but copyright belongs to
Red Hat and it's authors are Ingo and myself.

That is, say you want to use this code in a non GPLv2 project (say this
GPLv3 thing) then you would need to contact the copyright owner of this
code.