Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix licensing header in filecache.c

From: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix licensing header in filecache.c
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:21:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6909FD-6079-48AC-93E2-BD7937E31F86@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1+A7XzxKbRCCH4z@infradead.org>

> On Oct 31, 2022, at 4:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:35:18AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> /*
>> - * Open file cache.
>> - *
>> - * (c) 2015 - Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
>> + * The NFSD open file cache.
> 
> ЅPDX identifiers do not replace copyright statements.  So while adding
> one is agood idea, dropping the copyright notice (if that counts as one)
> is not.

I know you are Not A Lawyer (tm), but:

The e-mail address in the copyright notice is stale. Is the convention
to leave stale e-mail addresses in place?

So I would expect copyright ownership of this code to go to Primary Data,
Jeff's employer at the time. But they don't exist now either; it might
be difficult to get permission from them to alter this notice.

--
Chuck Lever