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

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Message-ID: <8d8a291b5237750827d6847b29efde5b750a28f7.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:06:45 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
        "maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org" <maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] maple_tree: Update copyright dates for test code

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@...cle.com>
> ---
>  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@...cle.com>
> + * maple_tree.c: Userspace testing for maple tree test-suite
> + * Copyright (c) 2018-2022 Oracle Corporation
> + * Author: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>

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@...cle.com>