On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 21:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > @@ -0,0 +1,405 @@ > > > +/* > > > + * Copyright (c) Intel Corp. 2007. > > > + * All Rights Reserved. > > > + * > > > > Saying 'All Rights Reserved' is usually considered the opposite of > > licensing your code as GPL. I suppose you need to remove that. > > Arnd, > > Thanks for your comments, and I'll review and make appropriate changes > as you've suggested. > > As for the above, I've noticed that drivers/video/epson1355fb.c also has > this wording and is under the GPL. >
"All Rights Reserved" is written notice, a part of copyright law formality. Nowadays, your works are protected (under the copyright law) even without that written notice, so the phrase can be excluded. I don't think the phrase is incompatible with GPL. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
