On 04/25/2016 03:46 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Stephen,
In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
Can you please get rid of this "All rights reserved." ?
Sorry, that is the format I'm required to use by NVIDIA legal.
To address your next question, "all rights reserved" is 100% compatible
with OSS licenses. Equally, the phrase already exists throughout both
the U-Boot and Linux kernel code-base (just a couple of prominent
examples) for both NVIDIA's copyright notices, and those of many other
prominent entities such as The Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Intel, The
Chromium OS Authors, etc.
Yes, I know these arguments. But actually this is b*llsh*t.
Is there really no chance to drop that?
I could ask NVIDIA legal again, but it's been discuss before and the
guidance given was not changed, so I don't imagine it would be productive.
- * (C) Copyright 2010-2015
- * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
+ * (C) Copyright 2010-2016
+ * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
The primary purpose of this patch-set isn't to clean up copyright
notices. As such, where I added new copyright notices I followed the
format that NVIDIA legal requests me to. However, where I simply edited
the date in existing notices I didn't do any other cleanup.
Well, obviously other people were either notrequested to add this "All
rights reserved." phrase, or found other ways to avoid it.
Can you please try to do the same?
Given that message about says "2010" as the start date, I imagine the
file was created (or copied blindly from another file that was created)
before NVIDIA legal gave guidance for us to follow. I could only do the
same by not following their current guidance, or claiming I forgot this
time, which would be rather hard to do given this email thread. Either
way, our internal systems will ding me for this when I rebase the copy
of U-Boot we use internally, so I'll have to explain it then.
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