On 01/10/2014 10:03 PM, David Hendricks wrote: > Thanks for bringing this up. I was kind of on the fence about approving > your Cubieboard changes because of some of the license headers, but > shrugged it off thinking that the intent was obvious enough. > > IANAL, but from what I understand it's usually a good idea to avoid > mucking with legalese as to avoid unintended consequences of how > licenses are enforced, particularly with regard to international > treaties pertaining to IP and copyrighted works. > > Also, there are a few distinct free software licenses used in coreboot > so I'd hate to add to the confusion. Keeping the licenses in their > canonical form and applying them to ever file ensures that coreboot gets > all the proper legal protections. > Linux and a few other projects already use short headers.
> Maybe someone more familiar with software licensing can shed some light > on the subject. > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
