From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754154Ab1ILTJD (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:09:03 -0400 Received: from mail.infrascan.de ([188.40.84.136]:39839 "EHLO infrascan.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753689Ab1ILTI7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:08:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4E6E58C9.7090901@sensortherm.de> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:08:57 +0200 From: Klaus Schwarzkopf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Thunderbird/3.1.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sarah Sharp CC: Alan Cox , Greg KH , mina86@mina86.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb: clean up FSF boilerplate text References: <1315686255-12892-1-git-send-email-schwarzkopf@sensortherm.de> <20110910221045.04953572@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20110911004420.GA3413@suse.de> <20110911093625.325b9ea4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20110912172407.GA8044@xanatos> In-Reply-To: <20110912172407.GA8044@xanatos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 12.09.2011 19:24, schrieb Sarah Sharp: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 09:36:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:44:20 +0200 >> Greg KH wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >>>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:24:15 +0200 >>>> Klaus Schwarzkopf wrote: >>>> >>>>> remove the following two paragraphs: >>>> >>>> NAK this for anything containing my copyright. NAK the one about warranty >>>> and liability because its incredibly important, although of course if >>>> you'd like to take personal liability... >>> >>> Odd, I was told that if you have the "this is covered under the GPLv2" >>> then that's all that is needed for a single file in a larger body of >>> work, like the kernel. >> >> People regularly take files out of the kernel or display only one of >> them. However it's a legal question which means changing it needs the >> approval of the right subspecies .... >> >> You may be right, but it should go past the appropriate expert for the >> change, just like anything else. >> >>> But you do agree about the address paragraph being able to be removed, >>> right? >> >> >> That is a legal question. I am not a lawyer. Please discuss with Intel >> before removing any disclaimers other license material. >> >> >> Sqwark! > > Alan's probably right at least about the warranty bit, so I'll have to > NAK for the changes to the xHCI driver (which are copyright Intel). > BTW, it would have been nice to be CC'd on the original patch. :) > Sorry, was 52 recipient, and i wouldn't spam the list. > Sarah Sharp My proposals: 1. do nothing, very easy ;-) 2. change the old address to the new one 3. remove the address paragraph and add the following text (from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html): You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . possibly change the url to, e.g. http://kernel.org/gpl2.txt Regards, Klaus Schwarzkopf