On 09/19/2012 08:54 PM, Jarl Friis wrote:
Is the addition of your copyright to the driver
>warranted by this change?
As far as I understand the copyright law: Yes, but I'm not an expert.
Neither am I 100% sure what you mean.
You add your name to the copy notice of the file so you claim it for the
entire file.
>For example, I have made much larger contributions
>to b43 over the years before I started doing reverse-engineering on this
>driver, but I never added my copyright.
I suggest you do.
Typically, the names you see there are and/or were b43 maintainers.
>Your "Signed-off-by" implies
>copyright for the patch.
The fact that I authored the patch implies copyright (even without
Signed-off-by)
Jarl
You can indeed claim it for your patch, but I think not beyond that. But
I am no lawyer either so .....pffff.
Gr. AvS
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