Hi, On Mon, Dec 05 2011, Philip Rakity wrote: >> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c >> index 6d8eea3..66afd82 100644 >> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c >> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c >> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ >> * linux/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c - Secure Digital Host Controller >> Interface driver >> * >> * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Pierre Ossman, All Rights Reserved. >> + * Copyright (C) 2011 Freescale Semiconductor Inc. > > > Lots of folks have made mods to this code and they have not added a > copyright name. > What is the rule Chris ?
You're right that many people have added far more significant changes than this without adding a copyright string, so we shouldn't add this one now. In general, though, I'd say that the rule is that you may (but are not required to) add a copyright string if your change is reasonably large and non-obvious/non-boilerplate. I don't think the copyright string means anything -- copyright is implicit in the authorship history which Git preserves -- but I'm not a lawyer. Having your name in the copyright string may make enforcing the GPL for that driver slightly easier for you, so for that reason I'm glad Pierre added himself. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
