Re: [RFC 6/9]drivers:char:nvram.c Change the copyright info.

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Jul 08 2011 - 12:33:33 EST


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 <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> 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 <Roman.Hodek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek <rj@xxxxxxx>
> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@xxxxxxx)
> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@xxxxxxx)
> *
> * 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.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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