On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 at 19:04:27 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,
> 
> Gerhard Roth wrote on Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:08:52PM +0200:
> 
> > +.\" Copyright (c) 2016 genua mbH
> > + * Copyright (c) 2016 genua mbH
> 
> These kinds of Copyright notices without the name of the actual author
> are misleading.  The purpose of a Copyright notice is to inform the
> reader who enjoys rights with respect to the Works; while they are
> not legally required to establish Copyright and purely of advisory
> nature, it is hard in practice, often almost impossible, to find out
> who holds rights without them.  So putting incorrect or incomplete
> information in Copyright notices defeats the very purpose of these
> notices.  Please never do that.

Can we stop all this bullshit bikeshedding and just get this driver
imported?  This is getting so ridiculous.  I'm amazed Gerhard has
stuck with it this long.

There is tons of code in our tree that has a copyright line of a
corporate entity.  "The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.", "Carnegie-Mellon
University", etc.  Your argument makes no sense and you are in no
position to tell Gerhard to force him to go get the code re-licensed
(which makes no sense anyway, as he probably wrote it on company
time).

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