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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/01] New FBDev driver for Intel Vermilion Range
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:00:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175810458.31131.7.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175809336.10105.54.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 21:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,405 @@
> > > +/*  
> > > + * Copyright (c) Intel Corp. 2007.
> > > + * All Rights Reserved.
> > > + *
> > 
> > Saying 'All Rights Reserved' is usually considered the opposite of
> > licensing your code as GPL. I suppose you need to remove that.
> 
> Arnd, 
> 
> Thanks for your comments, and I'll review and make appropriate changes
> as you've suggested.
> 
> As for the above, I've noticed that drivers/video/epson1355fb.c also has
> this wording and is under the GPL. 
> 

"All Rights Reserved" is written notice, a part of copyright law
formality. Nowadays, your works are protected (under the copyright law)
even without that written notice, so the phrase can be excluded.

I don't think the phrase is incompatible with GPL.

Tony 




  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 10:44 [PATCH 01/01] New FBDev driver for Intel Vermilion Range Alan Hourihane
2007-04-05 17:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-05 18:42   ` James Simmons
2007-04-05 18:58   ` Alan Hourihane
     [not found] ` <200704052138.08897.arnd@arndb.de>
2007-04-05 21:42   ` Alan Hourihane
2007-04-05 21:56     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-05 22:00     ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2007-04-06  0:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-06 13:39   ` Alan Hourihane
2007-04-09 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-20  9:04 ` Alan Hourihane
2007-04-20 13:51   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-20 13:54     ` Alan Hourihane

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