Re: [PATCH] maple_tree: Update copyright dates for test code

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 25 2022 - 14:07:00 EST


On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 17:37 +0000, Liam Howlett wrote:
> Add the span to the year of the development.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c b/tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c
> index 35082671928a..3620c9e5f7c5 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> /*
> - * maple_tree.c: Userspace shim for maple tree test-suite
> - * Copyright (c) 2018 Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + * maple_tree.c: Userspace testing for maple tree test-suite
> + * Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Oracle Corporation
> + * Author: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>

Confused here. Who owns the copyright from 2018?

And what happened from 2019 through 2021 ?

$ git log --stat -p -1 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa | grep -i copyright
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Oracle
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Oracle Corporation
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>