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From: gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:12:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140704221205.GA32013@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404511548.18844.3.camel@x220>

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:05:48AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 21:20 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's actually a common pattern:
>     $ git grep -i "Copyright.*All Rights Reserved" v3.16-rc3 | wc -l
>     5203

Yeah, I used to be "worried" about that as well, turns out it means
nothing :)

It's the license of the code that is the issue, not the copyright line,
which all lawyers tell me now shouldn't even be in a file, as it, again,
means nothing.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1086604719.8856.1404508237223.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
2014-07-04 21:20 ` Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-07-04 22:05   ` Paul Bolle
2014-07-04 22:12     ` gregkh [this message]
2014-07-07 13:03   ` One Thousand Gnomes

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