company copyrights. Re: [PATCH] PM / Documentation: Update Srivatsa S. Bhat's email address

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On Mon 2014-06-09 13:28:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, June 09, 2014 03:54:49 PM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > My @linux.vnet.ibm.com email address is going to disappear soon, as I will be
> > beginning my M.S./PhD studies at MIT in a few months.
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> > So update my email address in the documentation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> >  Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
> > index e13dafc..3813703 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >  Interaction of Suspend code (S3) with the CPU hotplug infrastructure
> >  
> > -     (C) 2011 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > +     (C) 2011-2014 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm actually unsure if updating copyright notices like that is OK.
> 
> Yes, you're moving, but the address in the notice documents the status at
> the time you added it.

Well, invalid addresses in the comments are useless.

If copyright is _yours_, updating the address is ok.

If copyright is your company's, you should probably say that plainly, not
just by email address.

	(C) 2011 IBM (Srivatsa...) 

is what people do.

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