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From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] sta2x11_vip: convert to videobuf2 and control framework
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:45:01 +0100
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> Not sure if you got my point: the main point of removing MODULE_AUTHOR
> and other copyright stuff is that such patch may easily be doing something
> that could be considered a copyright violation, being bad not only to
> the affected driver, but to the entire Kernel.
> 
> So, we need to handle it with due care. Getting other authors's
> acks on such patch seems to be the only safe way of doing that.

Yes I got the point.

Thank you

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Federico Vaga