linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/12][RFC v3] x86, hibernate: Extract the common code of 64/32 bit system

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20180920220516.GF27468@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:05:16 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "Chen, Yu C" <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, kookoo.gu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12][RFC v3] x86, hibernate: Extract the common code of
 64/32 bit system

On Wed 2018-09-19 12:36:40, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:34 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > index 000000000000..fbde8f0e8fe0
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/power/hibernate.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Hibernation support for x86
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2007 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2002 Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2001 Patrick Mochel <mochel@...l.org>
> > >
> > > I don't think this "copyright" information has any legal bearing any
> > > more at this point.
> >
> > I think that's wrong in general, and it's routine for corporate legal
> > departments to insist on specific boilerplate copyright notices when
> > OSS code is contributed.
> >
> > Copying code and then removing copyright notices is frowned upon
> > independently as well.
> >
> > While you can probably talk for your own copyright notice, I'm not sure
> > it's true of the two other historic copyright notices that were copied.
> >
> > So I think it's best practice to preserve all copyright notices as-is.
> 
> OK, let's retain them, then.

Thank you, I was about to make same comment as Ingo.

									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html