On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:59:43PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Rob Herring <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ben Herrenschmidt. Who is the copyright holder on a file in the kernel > > with no copyright? Does this default to the author or Linus or nobody? > > In the absence of a formal, written conveyance of the Copyright, it belongs > to the author(s) of that file.
It might depend on jurisdiction, but I don't believe presence or
absence of a copyright notice actually changes who holds the
copyright. It just makes it easier or harder to figure out who htat
is.
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