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Well, I don't think it's fair on those who created abort-ev7.S to go
throwing a boilerplate copyright on the file which makes it look like
"Code Aurora Forum." wrote the entire thing.

You want the license and copyright removed? I can remove them, although
I rather not have too.

The fact of the matter is that "Code Aurora Forum" did not create this
file, and their copyright does not cover the code which is already there.

Before we discuss it lets just be clear that I've already offered to
remove the copyright, and license changes.. I've not said that I
wouldn't do that , in fact I'll make a new pull request now minus those.

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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.

Maybe sane solution is to write "portions copyright"? people will not
 dig into git history when there's just one author listed.
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