[linux-sunxi] Re: sunxi-kms driver

2015-04-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
Also copyright like this looks weird: * Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd. Living in the future? :) I'm granting all the copyright to my newly written code to Allwinner so no... It's 2015 and the copyright goes 5 years... Am I wrong? ^^' Yes, you're wrong: the copyright

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: sunxi-kms driver

2015-04-11 Thread jonsm...@gmail.com
You need to insert the copyright notice as a way of saying you own the code in the file. After you claim ownership you can choose a license to release your work under. The important part of kernel development is placing the GPL notice at the top of each kernel source file (copy it from another