Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751042AbWATOtO (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:49:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751039AbWATOtO (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:49:14 -0500 Received: from nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com ([67.18.224.114]:47613 "EHLO nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751035AbWATOtN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:49:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43D0E95D.60802@emc.com> 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> <43D0E95D.60802@emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9135D57E-3511-4A81-B54D-253F34F06C52@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alan Cox , Greg KH , Roman Zippel , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: License oddity in some m68k files Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:49:10 -0600 To: Ric Wheeler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - nommos.sslcatacombnetworking.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kernel.crashing.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1097 Lines: 34 On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > 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. Good luck finding anyone in Freescale that would have any idea about this. - kumar - 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/