Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:14:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: License oddity in some m68k files
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Hi,

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:

> Someone recently pointed out to me the following wording on some of the
> m68k files that reads:
> 
> |               Copyright (C) Motorola, Inc. 1990
> |                       All Rights Reserved
> |
> |       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF MOTOROLA
> |       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
> |       actual or intended publication of such source code.

It has been published like this from Motorola and still is available at
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/software/app_software/code_examples/MC68040FPSP.html

> Any ideas of how they made it into our tree?  And any chance of
> correcting them to be the correct license or removing them?

The above is only a copyright notice, does this already constitute a 
license?
The actual license is in the README file.

bye, Roman
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