On Oct 31, 2022, at 9:48 AM, Jeff Layton [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 2022-10-31 at 06:31 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 01:21:45PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:

quoted

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.

I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I've talked to a few, so:

- first, does Jeff own the copyright for this code, or his employer at
  the time?
- if he owns it, can cna do pretty much whatever he wants
- if he doesn't, I would not touch it without approval from the
  copyright holder, which gets a little complicated for a company
  that doesn't exist in that form any more.

I went back and looked at the PD employment contract and I think I may
not own the copyright here. There was no explicit carveout for open-
source contributions (like I have at RH).

In light of that, I guess we should drop this patch and replace it with
one that just adds the SPDX header.

OK. I can cobble one up.

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Chuck Lever