Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add missing license and copyright statements to public interface headers.

[Mike Belopuhov <mike.belopuhov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 08:00:28AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 09/18/2015 04:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > >On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 13:53 +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> > >
> > >A few words here about the methodology you used to determine the names to
> > >use would be useful to people looking back on this stuff in the future.
> > >
> > >Also it would be sensible to CC everyone whose name you are adding. I've
> > >added Keir since you already Ccd Boris and I didn't see any other names
> > >after a quick glance.
> > 
> > For changes that include my name (pmu files)
> > Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Nack. Sorry Boris.
> 
> Let me send an email to legal to make sure I am not spouting
> nonsense. But in the meantime my understanding is that:
> 
>  Copyright (c) 2015 X,Y
> 
> means that the copyright (ownership of intellectual property)
> is owned by both X and Y.
> 
> However we (Boris, and me) both signed this fancy document saying
> that any work we do is owned by Oracle. It is OK to state
> the authorship, but the ownership is Oracle's.
> 
> If it was
> 
>  Copyright (c) 2015 X
> 
>  Author: Y
> 
> Then that is OK.

Hi Konrad,

Any luck getting this sorted out?

Regards,
Mike

> > 
> > Not sure about format --- files in public directory largely use the same
> > format as what Mike is suggesting here but most of newer files do what
> > Konrad said (i.e. "Author" on a separate line).
> > 
> > We will also want to apply similar patch to Linux tree (once this is done).
> > Mike, do you mind doing it too?
> > 
> > -boris
> > 

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