Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750973AbWATNqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:46:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750974AbWATNqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:46:37 -0500 Received: from mexforward.lss.emc.com ([168.159.213.200]:31416 "EHLO mexforward.lss.emc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971AbWATNqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:46:36 -0500 Message-ID: <43D0E95D.60802@emc.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:45:01 -0500 From: Ric Wheeler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Greg KH , Roman Zippel , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: License oddity in some m68k files References: <20060119180947.GA25001@kroah.com> <20060119220431.GA4739@kroah.com> <1137708896.8471.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119223251.GB27106@kroah.com> <43D0D5AC.2010604@emc.com> <1137760499.24161.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1137760499.24161.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.1.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2006.01.20.043105 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=, SPAM=1%, Reasons='EMC_FROM_00+ -3, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 32 Alan Cox wrote: >On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 07:21 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > >>The language in the source files is pretty strong and this looks like >>Motorola should be asked to rerelease the files with a normal >>copyright notice in place of the current language... >> >> > >Its standard boilerplate from the period. Its a perfectly normal and >clear copyright notice. > >Alan > > Actually, that is the exact language our lawyers still give us to use today when we have not settled on license terms when we want to share code in a severely limited fashion. I still think it best that they (Freescale) modify their language to reference the actual license grant in the README. ric - 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/