Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750759AbWATIxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:53:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750758AbWATIxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:53:51 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:11152 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750751AbWATIxu (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:53:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:52:29 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jes Sorensen cc: Alan Cox , Greg KH , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: License oddity in some m68k files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060119180947.GA25001@kroah.com> <1137706812.8471.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1389 Lines: 35 On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox writes: > > Alan> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:09 -0800, 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 > > Alan> You'll need to dig back through the archives but this was > Alan> discussed and resolved when the M68K merge was done or shortly > Alan> afterwards. There is no obvious problem with the licenses > Alan> either. I believe Jes Sorensen did the merge in question. > > Actually, I think the fpsp040 stuff goes back way further than > that. To the days when Hamish was in charge. Indeed. '040 support was added in early 1994. I still remember running uncached on '040, yielding 1.5 BogoMIPS ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/