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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/12][RFC v3] x86, hibernate: Extract the common code of 64/32 bit system
On Wed 2018-09-19 12:36:40, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:34 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > index 000000000000..fbde8f0e8fe0
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/power/hibernate.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Hibernation support for x86
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2007 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2002 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2001 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
> > >
> > > I don't think this "copyright" information has any legal bearing any
> > > more at this point.
> >
> > I think that's wrong in general, and it's routine for corporate legal
> > departments to insist on specific boilerplate copyright notices when
> > OSS code is contributed.
> >
> > Copying code and then removing copyright notices is frowned upon
> > independently as well.
> >
> > While you can probably talk for your own copyright notice, I'm not sure
> > it's true of the two other historic copyright notices that were copied.
> >
> > So I think it's best practice to preserve all copyright notices as-is.
>
> OK, let's retain them, then.

Thank you, I was about to make same comment as Ingo.

Pavel
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