From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757279AbaGDVU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:20:28 -0400 Received: from mail.efficios.com ([78.47.125.74]:41028 "EHLO mail.efficios.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535AbaGDVU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:20:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: gregkh Cc: LKML Message-ID: <1983136768.8892.1404508828693.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> In-Reply-To: <1086604719.8856.1404508237223.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> Subject: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [173.246.29.13] X-Mailer: Zimbra 8.0.7_GA_6021 (ZimbraWebClient - FF30 (Linux)/8.0.7_GA_6021) Thread-Topic: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging Thread-Index: tgcKZKbNVfJceP4iPxp9HIhuQxSLBQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, Reading this story about Qualcomm lawyers shooting DMCA takedown requests lightly against github projects: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/07/04/1455200/qualcomm-takes-down-100-github-repositories-with-dmca-notice http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTczNDU https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-02-Qualcomm.md It appears to me that the mere presence of those lines in Linux staging: grep -r "Qualcomm" . |grep -i "rights" ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c: * CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c:* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_hw.c:/* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. might be contradicting the Dual MPL/GPL license expressed by MODULE_LICENSE() for those files. Perhaps we should ask some clarification on licensing of those files to Qualcomm ? Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com