On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:21:26PM -0500, joshua stein wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 at 19:04:27 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi Gerhard, > > > > Gerhard Roth wrote on Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:08:52PM +0200: > > > > > +.\" Copyright (c) 2016 genua mbH > > > + * Copyright (c) 2016 genua mbH > > > > These kinds of Copyright notices without the name of the actual author > > are misleading. The purpose of a Copyright notice is to inform the > > reader who enjoys rights with respect to the Works; while they are > > not legally required to establish Copyright and purely of advisory > > nature, it is hard in practice, often almost impossible, to find out > > who holds rights without them. So putting incorrect or incomplete > > information in Copyright notices defeats the very purpose of these > > notices. Please never do that. > > Can we stop all this bullshit bikeshedding and just get this driver > imported? This is getting so ridiculous. I'm amazed Gerhard has > stuck with it this long. > > There is tons of code in our tree that has a copyright line of a > corporate entity. "The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.", "Carnegie-Mellon > University", etc. Your argument makes no sense and you are in no > position to tell Gerhard to force him to go get the code re-licensed > (which makes no sense anyway, as he probably wrote it on company > time).
One of the best e-mails i've seen recently on this thread ... I think some initial code shaping is fine before importing, but i also see no point to rewrite the whole driver in a mailing list.
