Re: RFC: Copyright notice

[Tsang-Ren Chang <690190029@s90.tku.edu.tw>]

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 - It is not unpublished as it states, as they distributed both 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 ;   (C) Unpublished Work of ADMtek Incorporated.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 ;       THIS WORK IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL,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