[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] libibcm: Fix some typos

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Jul 13 13:13:34 PDT 2005


Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] libibcm: Fix some typos
> 
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > I dont think you need to add copyright statements when you trim some
> > whitespace.
> 
> What about typos ? Just wondering...

I would think not.

> I was told to put a copyright on any files that were touched.

Clearly overboard.
I'm not a lawyer, lets just keep things sensible: copyrights in Linux
files would be insanely long if any trivial fix requires a copyright.

-- 
MST



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