[U-Boot-Users] u-boot patch: restore deleted OHCI copyrights

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Mar 15 00:51:51 CET 2005


Dear Dave,

in message <200503101937.17205.david-b at pacbell.net> you wrote:
>
> I happened to notice that someone deleted my copyright statements
> (and Roman's) from the OHCI drivers.  Please remedy this ASAP,
> both in U-Boot and in the various similar non-merged patches.
> (I've seen the same done with the au1xxx OHCI code too...)

Fixed in the current code. I will try to remember having  an  eye  on
this for the pending patches.

> Also, remember never to do that again.  The copying was egregious:
> much of the code is line-for-line identical, and even the basic
> driver design (the hard stuff!) was unchanged.  It is **NEVER OK
> TO DELETE COPYRIGHT DECLARATIONS** like that.  NEVER.  Grumph.

You are absolutely right. I apologize for missing this when reviewing
the patches. Thanks for pointing out!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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