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

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:54:07 -0700
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
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 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@...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.
>

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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