Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] scsi: fix spurious build failures in aic7xxx | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:48:13 -0600 |
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On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:38 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > drivers/base/attribute_container.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > drivers/base/transport_class.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > drivers/scsi/raid_class.c: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > include/linux/attribute_container.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > include/linux/raid_class.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > include/linux/transport_class.h: * Copyright (c) 2005 - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> > > > > This is less obvious: The copyrights are historical rather than current > > and also, I was at steeleye when I did that work, so it does deserve to > > be reflected in the file history. I know it adds confusion from a whom > > do I contact for this file point of view, but it is legally the right > > thing to do. > When I read the above is that the Copyright are assigned to the > person "James Bottomley" with an email address.
That's the correct reading.
> If Steeleye deserve copyrights then _I_ would have > explicitly stated the company name too.
No, I own the copyrights, but SteelEye was partially funding my open source work at the time.
James
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