On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 11:03:51PM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote: > Hi, > On 3/9/2018 3:35 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > >On 3/9/2018 9:39 AM, Tomasz Duszynski wrote: > >>Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <t...@semihalf.com> > >>--- > >> drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile | 35 ++++------------------------------- > >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c | 36 ++++-------------------------------- > >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.h | 36 ++++-------------------------------- > >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.c | 36 ++++-------------------------------- > >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.h | 36 ++++-------------------------------- > >> 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) > >> > >>diff --git a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile > >>index f75e53c..41ae6ec 100644 > >>--- a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile > >>+++ b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile > >>@@ -1,34 +1,7 @@ > >>-# BSD LICENSE > >>-# > >>-# Copyright(c) 2017 Marvell International Ltd. > >>-# Copyright(c) 2017 Semihalf. > >>-# All rights reserved. > > > ><...> > > > >>+# Copyright(c) 2018 Marvell International Ltd. > >>+# Copyright(c) 2018 Semihalf. > >>+# All rights reserved. > > > >Hi Tomasz, > > > >Related to the Copyright year update (2017 -> 2018), I am definitely not > >right > >person for legal issues, > > > >but as far as I know that year indicates the year that copyright starts, I > >assume you don't want to start your copyright from beginning 2018 but you > >want > >to extend it, for that case year part should be "start - extended", like: > ># Copyright(c) 2017-2018 Marvell International Ltd. > > > >cc'ed Hemant who know more than me about licensing. > > Well, as a DPDK contribution it is upto Marvell/Semihalf to change it. > > However, Ferruh made a good suggestion here. > > if nothing important is added, ideally the copyright year should not change. > So, don't change the copyright year or make it "Copyright(c) 2017-2018" . > It is not good for Marvell/Semihalf to just relinquish the 2017 copyright > for no good reason. > > Regards, > Hemant
Fair enough. I'll send v2 with the year unchanged. > > > > > >Thanks, > >ferruh > > > -- - Tomasz Duszyński
