From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932929AbXHNSDb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752776AbXHNSDS (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:18 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:56722 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753069AbXHNSDQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:16 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Len Brown Cc: trenn@suse.de, "Brown, Len" , linux-kernel , linux-acpi , Jesper Juhl , Zhang Rui , Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: Documentation - How to debug ACPI Problems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:40:01 EDT." <200708141140.02233.lenb@kernel.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1181140008.28514.259.camel@queen.suse.de> <9a8748490706060759s5d8c43bdoc34334fcf56ee96@mail.gmail.com> <1181579321.28514.304.camel@queen.suse.de> <200708141140.02233.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1187114583_21497P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:03 -0400 Message-ID: <26059.1187114583@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1187114583_21497P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:40:01 EDT, Len Brown said: > > > +Thomas Renninger , 2007 > > +Copyright (C) 2007 SUSE Linux GmbH > > While it seems to be generally customary to identify the authors of Documentation > files, it doesn't seem to be customary for them to assert a copyright. > Is this really necessary? My concern is that it could discourage contributors > for user or changing the text in any way they see fit. > > can anybody offer guidance on this? Well, if it's a GPL-friendly license on the document, the contributors should feel free to change it as needed - that's the point of the GPL. What it *does* make clear is that the doc was a "work for hire" under copyright law, and that if there's infringement, it isn't Thomas that's going to come looking for you, it's Suse Linux GmbH. > thanks, > -Len > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > --==_Exmh_1187114583_21497P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGwe5XcC3lWbTT17ARAnmOAJ9oLC3aCZi8aN4sTybW+oqoVDgsvQCgrl+d WSmM1bkds86F58xIHMie9ZU= =pcy2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1187114583_21497P--