Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:50:11 -0300
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: trenn@suse.de, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
       Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation - How to debug ACPI Problems
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> > +Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, 2007
> > +Copyright (C) 2007 SUSE Linux GmbH
> 
> While it seems to be generally customary to identify the authors of Documentation
> files, it doesn't seem to be customary for them to assert a copyright.
> Is this really necessary?  My concern is that it could discourage contributors
> for user or changing the text in any way they see fit.
> 
> can anybody offer guidance on this?

For docs that specify a friendly license explicitly (GPL, BSD, etc), that
should not be a problem.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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