Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:33:35 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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       Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Documentation - How to debug ACPI Problems
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:40:01 -0400
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> 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?

Its under the GPL so I don't see a problem really. I'd do the same for
Red Hat for new documents of substance I was adding to be honest.
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