Re: FW: [PATCH] drivers: support new Siano tuner devices.

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Jul 21 2011 - 20:32:57 EST


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:26:38 +0300, Doron Cohen said:
>
> Hi,
> This is the first time I ever post changes to linux kernel, so excuse me
> if I have errors in the process.
> As Siano team member,

> --- a/drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.h
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.h
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>
> Siano Mobile Silicon, Inc.
> MDTV receiver kernel modules.
> -Copyright (C) 2006-2008, Uri Shkolnik, Anatoly Greenblat
> +Copyright (C) 2006-2011, Doron Cohen

That looks incorrect. At least in the US, this code is probably a work-for-hire
and thus copyright to Siano Mobile not the programmers. And if it isn't, then
it's still wrong to take Uri and Anatoly's names off unless they've actually
assigned their copyrights to you.

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