On 04/25/2016 04:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Stephen Warren,
In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
[snip]
Unfortunately we've (NVIDIA at least) been a little lax making sure the
NVIDIA copyright messages are kept up-to-date when editing files, hence
why this series had to change a lot of them for the first time recently.
If we went back and re-wrote all of git history paying strict attention
to the copyright notice dates and formatting, I imagine the set of
copyright-related changes in this series would be much smaller.
I'm quoting Wolfgang's email here, but, yes, keeping the copyright
notices correct is important. Now, what do you mean by would be
smaller?
Personally I want to spend my time coding rather than dealing with
licensing. As such, it's easy to forget to update the dates in copyright
notices when changing files, or to put the correct information into new
files when creating new ones (often by just cutting/pasting some other
file with similar issues). If we had done that 100% correctly in every
commit across history, my inclination is that more files would already
have an NVIDIA copyright message, and/or already have 2016 in the date,
and hence this series wouldn't include an edit to those messages since
they'd already be up-to-date. Still, I have no searched all history to
confirm that; it's just my gut instinct.
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