Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] vmstate: Add copyrights for all cpus

[Andrzej Zaborowski]

On 7 November 2011 18:38, Juan Quintela <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch adds copyrights to all the machine description files for
> all architectures supported. (this is done on top of my vmstate-cpus
> series patches) The problem?
>
> - What should we put as "copyirght" owners.
>
> Althought I modified almost every line of the files, mostly of the
> changes are a conversion, so claiming myself as the only "copyright"
> owner sounds at least pretentious, and more than probably false.
>
> I tried to "dig" into the git logs and tried to came with "whoever"
> commit the initial cpu_save/load foar each architecture.  I have put
> them as:
>
>  * Based on qemu-file support done by:
>  *   Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
>
> But I would preffer that the persons involved state what copyright
> notice they want, name, address, year(s), etc.  (Some architectures
> already have a propper copyright notice, I didn't touch them), and
> others had an empty file (I put mine there on the previosu series).
>
> Several of the logs are from the svn days, and then I don't know if
> the person was the committer, or the author.  If anyone contributed
> to the functionality and want to add its copyright, please told me.
>
> To make things more complicated, when machine.c files were split from
> vl.c, they didn't carry any copyright notice at all, should we copy
> back everything from vl.c?
>
> To make things more complicated, it looks like Thiemo Seufer did the
> original mips support, and he passed away.  So he can't obviously
> comment.
>
> Anthony asked me to send a patch to the list, asking form comments.

Acked-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <address@hidden>

Cheers