Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:07:48 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/9] Change the copyright info. | From | Miguel Ojeda <> |
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/27/2010 01:17 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: >> >> > Below you will find a set of patches, that update the copyright info >> from >> > Sun Microsystems to Oracle. >> >> Are you working for Oracle? If so I would like to see these patches >> with an @oracle.com signed-off-by address. If not let's let the >> companies involved sort out the copyrights. >> >> - R. >> > > it's true what they say "you learn something new everyday".. in this case I > needed to be from the company in order too submit patches like this.(no > worries over here, let the companies sort out the copyrights(like what you > said))
You can't change others' copyright, be it a company or not. AFAIK, what you can do is adding/changing/improving/copying/... the code (and add your own copyright for the changes if they are important enough); but you have to maintain the original copyright if you keep the code as is.
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