RFC: Copyright notice

RFC: Copyright notice

[Jeroen Vreeken]

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- It is not unpublished as it states, as they distributed both compiled 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;   (C) Unpublished Work of ADMtek Incorporated.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;       THIS WORK IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL,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:
;

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

Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Tsang-Ren Chang]

Jeroen Vreeken wrote:

> 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:
> ;
>
> ;*****************************************************************************/ 
>
>
>
> .
>

Hi  Jeroen:
    How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
I have looked for it for a long time. :-(

TR Chang
Best regards.

Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Jeroen Vreeken]

Tsang-Ren Chang wrote:

>
> Hi  Jeroen:
>    How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
> I have looked for it for a long time. :-(
>
> TR Chang
> Best regards.
>
Its at http://www.edimax.co.uk/download/Linux-SC.zip but it is really 
slow...

Jeroen

Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Jeroen Vreeken]

Tsang-Ren Chang wrote:

>
> Hi  Jeroen:
>    How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
> I have looked for it for a long time. :-(
>
> TR Chang
> Best regards.
>
Its at http://www.edimax.co.uk/download/Linux-SC.zip but it is really 
slow...

Jeroen

Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Tsang-Ren Chang]

Jeroen Vreeken wrote:

> Tsang-Ren Chang wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi  Jeroen:
>>    How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
>> I have looked for it for a long time. :-(
>>
>> TR Chang
>> Best regards.
>>
> Its at http://www.edimax.co.uk/download/Linux-SC.zip but it is really 
> slow...
>
> Jeroen
>
>
> .
>
Hi Jeroen:
    Thank you very much! :-D
I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the  latest offical 
kernel (ex: 2.4.29).

Best regards,
TR Chang

Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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> I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the  latest offical 
> kernel (ex: 2.4.29).

Maybe better try something more recent like the linux-2.6 series?

MfG, JBG

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Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Jeroen Vreeken]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-25 22:53:17 +0800, Tsang-Ren Chang <690190029@s90.tku.edu.tw>
>wrote in message <41F65D5D.3060803@s90.tku.edu.tw>:
>
>  
>
>>I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the  latest offical 
>>kernel (ex: 2.4.29).
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe better try something more recent like the linux-2.6 series?
>  
>
Already on it....
I expect to post some patches soon with the basic stuff to get it running...
(board and serial stuff, not ethernet, usb or mtd yet)

Jeroen