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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1107081832490.11049@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:33:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 6/9]drivers:char:nvram.c Change the copyright info.

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@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  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@...ormatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>   * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek <rj@...e.de>
> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@....com)
> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@....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.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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