2014-02-15 1:14 GMT+08:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:27:17AM +0800, Barry Song wrote: >> 2014-02-13 0:38 GMT+08:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:26:35AM +0800, Barry Song wrote: >> >> > Well, your 2012 change doesn't seem to be "significant" to warrent a >> >> > normal copyright update, but the update is usually "less strict" than an >> >> > original mark, so that might be ok, now that I review these closer. >> >> > >> >> > But I'd still prefer to get the opinion of your lawyer about this. >> >> >> >> Greg, thanks. i will ask csr lawyer to give some feedback if i can :-) >> >> >> >> i am not an expert of copyright and i am really ignorant on it. in my >> >> shallow understand, it seems it is difficult to evaluate what is >> >> "significant" and what is not important as it highly depends on the >> >> personal opinion? is this something like "there are a thousand Hamlets >> >> in a thousand people's eyes"? >> > >> > It does "depend", but the "general" rule that most everyone follows, and >> > what I have been advised to stick to, is "1/3 of the file is >> > modified/added to" by a company/developer. If that happens, then a >> > copyright mark is allowed. That has worked well over the many years of >> > me having to deal with this, but the issue of "extending" the mark >> > hasn't really been discussed, so I don't know if that same rule applies >> > here or not. >> > >> > Feedback from your lawyer would be great to have on this, thanks. >> > >> >> Greg, i am inviting our lawyer Cherrie into this, as she is maybe >> busy, so we might wait some time. > > In my research, it's become apparent that the copyright notice should > just be removed entirely from the files, as they don't mean anything > from a legal standpoint, so updating them shouldn't really be done > either, as they don't mean anything. Although one could argue, if they > don't mean anything, updating it shouldn't matter, but I don't think > that the transitive is true here... > > It will be interesting to find out what your lawyer says about this. Greg, all your comments have been forwarded to our layer and counsel. pls wait for some time :-) > > thanks, > > greg k-h -barry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
