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

[Justin P. Mattock]

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<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.

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
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