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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v39 11/24] x86/sgx: Add SGX enclave driver
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    On 10/5/20 8:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:
    > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:23:45PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
    >> [*] One thing I've been wondering for a long time is that, why new code
    >> should have the copyright platters in the first place? I get it for
    >> pre-Git era but now there is a cryptographic log of authority.
    > Go talk to your corporate lawyers about this, it is one of the most
    > common cargo-cult patterns around :)

    For this patch, though, it seems like we should just update the dates
    instead of removing them.

    If I look at the last 1000 "^+.*Copyright" lines added to the kernel,
    997 of them have a year. So, weird or not, it's a pretty standard
    convention. We'd need a slightly more broad conversation before we
    decide to nix these dates.

    Pure speculation: Copyright protection, at least in the US, is not
    forever. I _think_ it's 75 years or something. That protection starts
    when the work is created and is independent of when it gets merged into
    Linux. So, if we did something weird like merge a driver written 10
    years ago, it would only be protected for 65 more years after we merge
    it. In other words, git history _might_ be irrelevant for copyright
    protection.

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