Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, thank you for bringing this up on the list! Am Freitag, den 10.01.2014, 18:58 -0600 schrieb mrnuke: ## ## This file is part of the coreboot project. ## ## Copyright (C) 2014 Alexandru Gagniuc em...@addr.ess ## ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-18 Thread Patrick Georgi
Am Samstag, den 18.01.2014, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: (Note that Ron’s text disallows later versions of the GPL, which is probably a mistake, which should be corrected.) Significant parts of coreboot are GPLv2-only. Deliberately so. Under the continental European legal tradition, any

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-18 Thread mrnuke
On 01/18/2014 11:12 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published * by the Free Software Foundation, incorporated herein by reference.

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-11 Thread Anthony Martin
David Hendricks david.hendri...@gmail.com once said: 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

[coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-10 Thread mrnuke
## ## This file is part of the coreboot project. ## ## Copyright (C) 2014 Alexandru Gagniuc em...@addr.ess ## ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation; either

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-10 Thread David Hendricks
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:58 PM, mrnuke mr.nuke...@gmail.com wrote: ## ## This file is part of the coreboot project. ## ## Copyright (C) 2014 Alexandru Gagniuc em...@addr.ess ## ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ## it under the terms of the GNU General

Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Short license headers

2014-01-10 Thread mrnuke
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