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From: Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: RFC: Copyright notice
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:40:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F6141C.7010908@amsat.org> (raw)

Hi,

I have been porting the 2.4.18 based edimax sources for the adm5120 to 
2.6 over the last few days (its alive, atleast untill it blows up in the 
delay measurement :).
I would like some advice on the copyright notices the ADMtek guys put in 
these files....

Below I included one such blurp.
To me it reads like a load of crap.
- It is not unpublished as it states, as they distributed both compiled 
kernels and the sources.
- Tradesecrets are kind of a nonsense if you put your sources on a 
publicly accessable webserver.
- They linked and distributed the result against GPL (kernel, not just 
compiled as a module) code so I am pretty sure we can asume that we 
comply with option II (in other words: we have a license)

Keeping this is going to get people freaked out for sure, would it be ok 
to just change it to 'Copyright ADMtek' and add a few lines refering to 
the GPL?

Thanks,
Jeroen


header of arch/mips/am5120/irq.c:

/*****************************************************************************
;
;   (C) Unpublished Work of ADMtek Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.
;
;       THIS WORK IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL,
;       PROPRIETARY AND TRADESECRET INFORMATION OF ADMTEK INCORPORATED.
;       ACCESS TO THIS WORK IS RESTRICTED TO (I) ADMTEK EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE A
;       NEED TO KNOW TO PERFORM TASKS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THEIR ASSIGNMENTS
;       AND (II) ENTITIES OTHER THAN ADMTEK WHO HAVE ENTERED INTO 
APPROPRIATE
;       LICENSE AGREEMENTS.  NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED, PRACTICED,
;       PERFORMED, COPIED, DISTRIBUTED, REVISED, MODIFIED, TRANSLATED,
;       ABBRIDGED, CONDENSED, EXPANDED, COLLECTED, COMPILED, LINKED, RECAST,
;       TRANSFORMED OR ADAPTED WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF ADMTEK.
;       ANY USE OR EXPLOITATION OF THIS WORK WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION COULD
;       SUBJECT THE PERPERTRATOR TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LIABILITY.
;
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
;    Project : ADM5120
;    Creator : daniell@admtek.com.tw
;    File    : arch/mips/am5120/irq.c
;     Date    : 2003.3.4
;    Abstract:
;
;Modification History:
;

;*****************************************************************************/

             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-25  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25  9:40 Jeroen Vreeken [this message]
2005-01-25 13:29 ` RFC: Copyright notice Tsang-Ren Chang
2005-01-25 13:43   ` Jeroen Vreeken
2005-01-25 13:43     ` Jeroen Vreeken
2005-01-25 14:53     ` Tsang-Ren Chang
2005-01-25 14:56       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-01-25 15:11         ` Jeroen Vreeken

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