Re: [PATCH v6 17/39] platform: add video-multiplexer subdevice driver

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 14:05:59 EST


On Wed 2017-04-05 13:58:39, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.04.2017, 13:18 +0200 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > + * video stream multiplexer controlled via gpio or syscon
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2013 Pengutronix, Sascha Hauer <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2016 Pengutronix, Philipp Zabel <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is actually quite interesting. Same email address for two
> > people...
> >
> > Plus, I believe this wants to say that copyright is with Pengutronix,
> > not Sascha and Philipp. In that case you probably want to list
> > copyright and authors separately?
> >
> Nope, copyright doesn't get transferred to the employer within the rules
> of the German "Urheberrecht", but stays at the original author of the
> code.

Ok, then I guess it should be

Copyright (C) 2013 Sascha Hauer
Work sponsored by Pengutronix, use <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> as contact address

or something? I know license change is not on the table, but I guess
it is good to get legal stuff right.
Pavel
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