On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:27 +0100, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:28 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Catalin, as the apparant author of this file, do you have a view on this? > > Looking at this file again, I don't think anyone could copyright > anything in this file prior to us adding stuff .. It's like 4 lines of > assembly prior to us adding 13 lines .. I don't think the amount of lines matter wrt GPL. I agree that the existing 4 lines aren't anything important but if you consider them as part of a bigger patch (commit bbe88886), they are not so insignificant. I don't care much about these four lines, it's just a matter of principle. If you want, you can add something like (the GPL preamble is fine): * ... * Copyright (C) 2007 ARM Ltd. * Copyright (C) 2010 Code Aurora Forum. The reason why I haven't added a header is because this file was most likely derived from abort-ev6.S (probably originating from Deep Blue Solutions - that's the "..." part above). Personally, I wouldn't bother with adding a copyright header for 13 lines but your legal department may have a different view. Note - that's my personal view only, the copyright of the work I produce belongs to ARM Ltd. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
