[illumos-Developer] webrev for 1073: migrate kernel modules from ancient _depends_on to true ELF dependencies

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 06/27/11 10:49 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 10:04 -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote:
>> Hey Garrett,
>>
>> Is it an option to choose not to add a copyright? Do you have any
>> advice regarding whether or not to add a copyright?
> 
> It is a reasonable choice.  The advice I always received was that if you
> made a change which resulted in a change in the binary, then it affected
> copyright.  Personally, the boundary for when to add and not to add
> always seemed a little grey to me.  I probably error on the side of
> adding copyright too freely.

That was Sun's advice to employees on when it wanted its copyright notice added.

It always gave opensolaris contributors the choice of adding an explicit
copyright notice of their own or just leaving the existing ones in a file
being modified.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System