[PATCH v2] dma: stm32: Fix copyright
Vinod Koul
vinod.koul at intel.com
Thu Nov 30 01:21:31 PST 2017
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Gaignard
> <benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Uniformize STMicroelectronics copyrights header
> > Add SPDX identifier
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard at st.com>
> > Acked-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue at st.com>
> > CC: M'boumba Cedric Madianga <cedric.madianga at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> > index 786fc8fcc38e..e3187ee9afe9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c
> > @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > /*
> > * Driver for STM32 DMA controller
> > *
> > * Inspired by dma-jz4740.c and tegra20-apb-dma.c
> > *
> > * Copyright (C) M'boumba Cedric Madianga 2015
> > + * Copyright (C) STMicroelectronics 2017
>
> According to git history, this file wasn't modified by STM in 2017?
or rather ever..
File has 14 non merge commits, 9 from M'boumba Cedric Madianga, 1 from Colin
Ian King and rest yours truely. IANAL but changing copyright here does sound
fishy.. what's going on?
>
> > * Author: M'boumba Cedric Madianga <cedric.madianga at gmail.com>
> > *
> > - * License terms: GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2
> > */
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
--
~Vinod
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