From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S941734AbcLVRax (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:30:53 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54466 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933823AbcLVRaw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:30:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:31:05 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Cc: joe@perches.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bongkyu.kim@lge.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module based on LZ4 v1.7.2. Message-ID: <20161222173105.GB17177@kroah.com> References: <1482263555.1984.28.camel@perches.com> <1482350642-13119-1-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1482350642-13119-1-git-send-email-4sschmid@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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