On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 22:50 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > 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). http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commit;h=ed29a8097665ef86dd9a2d8a8a3b808ab70f28ee that's the commit that brought in abort-ev6.S. The only copyrights I see in that commit are, linux/arch/arm/mm/tlb-v6.S Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Russell King include/asm-arm/atomic.h Copyright (C) 1996 Russell King. Copyright (C) 2002 Deep Blue Solutions Ltd linux/arch/arm/mm/proc-v6.S Copyright (C) 2001 Deep Blue Solutions Ltd. Should I just add all these and give everyone credit? Daniel -- 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