Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753913Ab0K0XHx (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:07:53 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:55463 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753711Ab0K0XHu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:07:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=N8KI56MLwMZeVI5FdT7FUPYu66Ubnc+jN1QBS4zeoIp2yoZC/ls7F21fnGF3+H65Vl mjBogG+/3IBN1r+1UKxwmdEKUa6ZCagWueDiWnCGlPUBRuqgwH1ZRTfXFYIDP4ar+PpN RkCOSK7HB6Qs1+LZsOtvjkueP3LIpDleG0ADo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CF18853.1000402@gmail.com> References: <1290838879-11038-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <4CF18853.1000402@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:07:48 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 0/9] Change the copyright info. From: Miguel Ojeda To: "Justin P. Mattock" Cc: Roland Dreier , trivial@kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 41 On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > On 11/27/2010 01:17 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: >> >> ?> ?Below you will find a set of patches, that update the copyright info >> from >> ?> ?Sun Microsystems to Oracle. >> >> Are you working for Oracle? ?If so I would like to see these patches >> with an @oracle.com signed-off-by address. ?If not let's let the >> companies involved sort out the copyrights. >> >> ?- R. >> > > it's true what they say "you learn something new everyday".. in this case I > needed to be from the company in order too submit patches like this.(no > worries over here, let the companies sort out the copyrights(like what you > said)) You can't change others' copyright, be it a company or not. AFAIK, what you can do is adding/changing/improving/copying/... the code (and add your own copyright for the changes if they are important enough); but you have to maintain the original copyright if you keep the code as is. > > cheers, > > Justin P. Mattock > -- > 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/ > -- 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/