Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752786AbaBXODi (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:03:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-f178.google.com ([209.85.215.178]:34467 "EHLO mail-ea0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498AbaBXODh (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:03:37 -0500 Message-ID: <530B512D.8090308@monstr.eu> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:03:25 +0100 From: Michal Simek Reply-To: monstr@monstr.eu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130330 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Felipe Balbi , Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier References: <20140221160442.GA17506@kroah.com> <5307790A.4050806@monstr.eu> <20140221161246.GM31902@saruman.home> <53077C5F.9000407@monstr.eu> <20140221162045.GN31902@saruman.home> <20140221165633.GA5465@kroah.com> <53078C30.7060703@monstr.eu> <20140221175720.GA21660@kroah.com> <20140221190125.GL31047@thunk.org> <530B1B25.5090601@monstr.eu> <20140224134150.GB25357@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20140224134150.GB25357@thunk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ehuHqNk3iLxT31GSeNWqi616QXPxdrd86" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --ehuHqNk3iLxT31GSeNWqi616QXPxdrd86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/24/2014 02:41 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying fo= r >>> the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has th= e >>> Gold, makes the Rules), and each of our respective corporate lawyers >>> may have different opinions about what might happen if the question >>> was ever to be adjudicated in court. >> >> Aren't all these points already answered by SPDX project? >> I believe that they should know how this should be handled properly. >=20 > The SPDX can not give legal advice; not to you, and not to your > company. One lawyer might believe that=20 >=20 > /* > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ >=20 > Might be sufficient. Others might believe you need to do: >=20 > /* > * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012. > *=20 > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ >=20 > Still others might believe you need at the very least: >=20 > /* > * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012. > *=20 > * All Rights Reserved. > * > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ Aren't these differences already present in the header? >=20 > As far as I know, there is no case law on point about whether or not > SPDX-License-Identifier has legal significance, or whether the court > would consider that to be a valid copyright permission statement. So > any "answers" made by any lawyer would be guesses. Of course, an > guess by a lawyer which is retained by *you* or your company and fully > informed with the unique parameters of your situation would constitute > legal advice. Anything else, including anything any of us could say > on this mailing list, would be biovating. :-) I think make sense to wait for Wolfgang about his experience because I believe he has considered it before u-boot change. BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-) Thanks, Michal --=20 Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng), OpenPGP -> KeyID: FE3D1F91 w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel - Microblaze cpu - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM architecture Microblaze U-BOOT custodian and responsible for u-boot arm zynq platform --ehuHqNk3iLxT31GSeNWqi616QXPxdrd86 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMLUS0ACgkQykllyylKDCFXqACaA6p1SNuBv18vesRJy8u2E+r3 0ioAn1WFhVbZX+z4Pz39/HaxLE6yFmcW =VF8i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ehuHqNk3iLxT31GSeNWqi616QXPxdrd86-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/