Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756345AbWKRNAY (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:00:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756346AbWKRNAX (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:00:23 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:40156 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756344AbWKRNAW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:00:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:59:42 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal To: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras , linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, hpa@zytor.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, pavel@suse.cz, rjw@sisk.pl Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] x86_64: Move CPU verification code to common file Message-ID: <20061118125942.GA17248@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com References: <20061117223432.GA15449@in.ibm.com> <200611180929.12643.ak@suse.de> <17758.59055.613106.945095@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <200611181158.15114.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200611181158.15114.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 33 On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:58:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:55, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Andi Kleen writes: > > > > > On Friday 17 November 2006 23:59, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Vivek Goyal (vgoyal@in.ibm.com) > > > > > > Normally it's not ok to take sole copyright on code that you mostly copied ... > > > > Is this a case where the original had no copyright notice? If so, > > what do you suggest Vivek should have done? > > The head.S code this was copied from definitely had a copyright. > I am sorry but I am completely unaware of the details of Copyright information. Somebody please tell me what should be the right info here given that basically I have taken the code from arch/x86_64/boot/head.S, picked modifications done by Eric and minor changes of my own. Do I copy here all the copyright info of head.S and then add Eric's name and mine too? Thanks Vivek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/