From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753484AbYBCUs0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:48:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752108AbYBCUsT (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:48:19 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:48710 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbYBCUsS (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:48:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: fix spurious build failures in aic7xxx From: James Bottomley To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20080203203822.GE2648@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080202140326.GA6544@elte.hu> <20080202140630.GA7939@elte.hu> <20080202141857.GA8635@elte.hu> <20080202162611.GA24765@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080202171020.GB12748@elte.hu> <20080203045441.GA12128@elte.hu> <20080203074143.GA19981@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1202066623.3318.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080203200558.GC2648@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1202069700.3318.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080203203822.GE2648@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:48:13 -0600 Message-Id: <1202071693.3318.105.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:38 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > drivers/base/attribute_container.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > drivers/base/transport_class.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > drivers/scsi/raid_class.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > include/linux/attribute_container.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > include/linux/raid_class.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > include/linux/transport_class.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley > > > > This is less obvious: The copyrights are historical rather than current > > and also, I was at steeleye when I did that work, so it does deserve to > > be reflected in the file history. I know it adds confusion from a whom > > do I contact for this file point of view, but it is legally the right > > thing to do. > When I read the above is that the Copyright are assigned to the > person "James Bottomley" with an email address. That's the correct reading. > If Steeleye deserve copyrights then _I_ would have > explicitly stated the company name too. No, I own the copyrights, but SteelEye was partially funding my open source work at the time. James