Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:36815 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750750Ab1GHSy0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:54:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4E17524F.3020000@gmail.com> (sfid-20110708_205442_094995_6FA4558E) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:54:07 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC 6/9]drivers:char:nvram.c Change the copyright info. References: <1290838879-11038-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <1290838879-11038-7-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/08/2011 09:33 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> Change the copyright info from Sun Microsystems to Oracle since Oracle now owns them. >> >> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock >> >> --- >> drivers/char/nvram.c | 2 +- >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c >> index 166f1e7..33e8faa 100644 >> --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c >> +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c >> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ >> * >> * Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek >> * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek >> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com) >> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@sun.com) >> * >> * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in >> * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into > > You can't just change other people/company copyright. > > This will need Signoff from the original copyright holder at least. > yeah I think somebody from oracle had already told me this the day I had sent these out. from what I remember here is the original thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/27/31 so somebody from oracle needs to claim this, and the rest of the kernel! Justin P. Mattock