From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: sirf: update copyright years to 2014 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:19:31 -0800 Message-ID: <20140212141931.GA7688@kroah.com> References: <1392214124-3427-1-git-send-email-21cnbao@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48381 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751948AbaBLORX (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:17:23 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1392214124-3427-1-git-send-email-21cnbao@gmail.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, workgroup.linux@csr.com, Barry Song On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:08:44PM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > From: Barry Song > > Signed-off-by: Barry Song > --- > drivers/tty/serial/sirfsoc_uart.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sirfsoc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sirfsoc_uart.c > index 49a2ffd..7079b5c 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sirfsoc_uart.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sirfsoc_uart.c > @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ > /* > * Driver for CSR SiRFprimaII onboard UARTs. > * > - * Copyright (c) 2011 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, a CSR plc group company. > + * Copyright (c) 2011 - 2014 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, a CSR plc group > + * company. I do not see contributions from csr for all of these years, so no, this is not allowed. Please go talk with your corporate lawyer if you have questions about how/when to update the copyright of your files, as I don't think they would agree that this change is correct. greg k-h