On Oct 31, 2022, at 4:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:35:18AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:

quoted

+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
- * Open file cache.
- *
- * (c) 2015 - Jeff Layton [off-list ref]
+ * The NFSD open file cache.

ЅPDX identifiers do not replace copyright statements.  So while adding
one is agood idea, dropping the copyright notice (if that counts as one)
is not.

I know you are Not A Lawyer (tm), but:

The e-mail address in the copyright notice is stale. Is the convention
to leave stale e-mail addresses in place?

So I would expect copyright ownership of this code to go to Primary Data,
Jeff's employer at the time. But they don't exist now either; it might
be difficult to get permission from them to alter this notice.


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Chuck Lever