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Re: [PATCH V2 01/16] net: iosm: entry point

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:51:44AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 08:44 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > 
> > > +#define DRV_AUTHOR "Intel Corporation <linuxwwan@xxxxxxxxx>"
> > 
> > Driver author can't be a company. It needs to be a person.
> 
> Most of
> 
> 	git grep MODULE_AUTHOR|grep Inc
> 
> disagrees.

Did you actually look on the output of that grep?

We have three types of MODULE_AUTHOR(..) there
1. Really old code with non-existent companies
2. People who added their names together with the company name
3. Heavy copy/pasted code

MODULE_AUTHOR is not copyright which (usually) goes to the company that
sponsored the work, but can be seen as git commit author in pre-historic
days.

So no, old doesn't mean correct.

Thanks

> 
> johannes
> 



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