From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965614AbcLVSjp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:39:45 -0500 Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de ([134.100.9.70]:40867 "EHLO mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936401AbcLVSjn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:39:43 -0500 From: Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: joe@perches.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bongkyu.kim@lge.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module based on LZ4 v1.7.2. Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:39:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1482431968-2104-1-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 In-Reply-To: <20161222173105.GB17177@kroah.com> References: <20161222173105.GB17177@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/22/2016 06:31 PM, Greg KH wrote: >On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:04:02PM +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote: >> On 12/20/2016 08:52 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> > On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 19:53 +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote: >> >> This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.2 by Yann Collet. >> >> The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min. >> >> The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there were alias >> >> methods added to ensure backwards compatibility. >> > >> >[] >> > >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/lz4.h b/include/linux/lz4.h >> > [] >> >> @@ -1,87 +1,218 @@ >> >> #ifndef __LZ4_H__ >> >> #define __LZ4_H__ >> >> + >> >> /* >> >> * LZ4 Kernel Interface >> >> * >> >> - * Copyright (C) 2013, LG Electronics, Kyungsik Lee >> >> + * Copyright (C) 2016, Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> >> > >> > Deleting copyright notices is poor form and shouldn't be done. >> > >> > I didn't look at the rest >> > >> >> Thanks Joe for your time. If you would take a look at the rest, you may notice >> that I changed almost the whole file. That's why I also changed the copyright note. >> If you think I should keep the original note, I will do that. > >You have to, please consult a lawyer if you have questions about >copyright issues. Or better yet, there's a free presentation/course >online about copyright on the linuxfoundation.org website somewhere that >should answer all of your questions here. I recommend taking a few >minutes and going through that. > >thanks, > >greg k-h > Will do, thanks Greg!