Commit 647abae9 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add note about "Copyright" to SubmittingDrivers

From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>

This patch adds a comment to "Documentation/SubmittingDrivers" about the
importance of adding a Copyright notice in submitted code.

The parisc-linux port has neglected this in the past and I've been slowly
trying to correct that (along with proper GPL header).

While I make it sound like GPL is the "only" acceptable license, I'll leave
it up to lawyers to determine what other appropriate license could be used
for a new driver.
parent f1802d1c
......@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ Licensing: The code must be released to us under the
to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well
wish to release under multiple licenses.
Copyright: The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL.
It's best if the submitter and copyright owner
are the same person/entity. If not, the name of
the person/entity authorizing use of GPL should be
listed in case it's necessary to verify the will of
the copright owner.
Interfaces: If your driver uses existing interfaces and behaves like
other drivers in the same class it will be much more likely
to be accepted than if it invents gratuitous new ones.
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