[GIT PULL] generic arm for MSM try2

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:28 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > By putting such a boilerplate at the start of the file without some
> > acknowledgement of its past history, they are effectively saying that
> > their copyright extends to everything in the file.  That's certainly
> > not the case; take a moment to consider how you'd feel if someone threw
> > their copyright boilerplate on a file you'd written.
> 
> There is git history on it. Anyone that looks at the git history would
> know right off we didn't write the whole file. There's nothing stopping
> other copyright holders from adding their copyright on top of ours.

I think it is far more logical to view it the other way around: you 
don't need to add your own copyright notice for minor changes to every 
files you touch as the Git history already captures your contribution 
credits.

Again, it is best to keep copyright notices to files you create 
yourself, or files that you significantly enhanced and/or rewrote (like 
50% of the original content was replaced or the like).


Nicolas