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    Subjectcompany copyrights. Re: [PATCH] PM / Documentation: Update Srivatsa S. Bhat's email address
    On Mon 2014-06-09 13:28:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
    > On Monday, June 09, 2014 03:54:49 PM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
    > > My @linux.vnet.ibm.com email address is going to disappear soon, as I will be
    > > beginning my M.S./PhD studies at MIT in a few months.
    >
    > Congratulations!
    >
    > > So update my email address in the documentation.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    > > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@mit.edu>
    > > ---
    > >
    > > Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt | 2 +-
    > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
    > >
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
    > > index e13dafc..3813703 100644
    > > --- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
    > > +++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
    > > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
    > > Interaction of Suspend code (S3) with the CPU hotplug infrastructure
    > >
    > > - (C) 2011 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    > > + (C) 2011-2014 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@mit.edu>
    >
    > I'm actually unsure if updating copyright notices like that is OK.
    >
    > Yes, you're moving, but the address in the notice documents the status at
    > the time you added it.

    Well, invalid addresses in the comments are useless.

    If copyright is _yours_, updating the address is ok.

    If copyright is your company's, you should probably say that plainly, not
    just by email address.

    (C) 2011 IBM (Srivatsa...)

    is what people do.

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