From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>,
Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta <subbaraya.sundeep.bhatta@xilinx.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta <sbhatta@xilinx.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:03:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530B512D.8090308@monstr.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140224134150.GB25357@thunk.org>
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On 02/24/2014 02:41 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying for
>>> the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has the
>>> Gold, makes the Rules), and each of our respective corporate lawyers
>>> may have different opinions about what might happen if the question
>>> was ever to be adjudicated in court.
>>
>> Aren't all these points already answered by SPDX project?
>> I believe that they should know how this should be handled properly.
>
> The SPDX can not give legal advice; not to you, and not to your
> company. One lawyer might believe that
>
> /*
> * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> */
>
> Might be sufficient. Others might believe you need to do:
>
> /*
> * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012.
> *
> * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> */
>
> Still others might believe you need at the very least:
>
> /*
> * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012.
> *
> * All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> */
Aren't these differences already present in the header?
>
> As far as I know, there is no case law on point about whether or not
> SPDX-License-Identifier has legal significance, or whether the court
> would consider that to be a valid copyright permission statement. So
> any "answers" made by any lawyer would be guesses. Of course, an
> guess by a lawyer which is retained by *you* or your company and fully
> informed with the unique parameters of your situation would constitute
> legal advice. Anything else, including anything any of us could say
> on this mailing list, would be biovating. :-)
I think make sense to wait for Wolfgang about his experience because
I believe he has considered it before u-boot change.
BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-)
Thanks,
Michal
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-24 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 9:40 [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-20 18:23 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 6:38 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 16:04 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:12 ` SPDX-License-Identifier (was: Re: [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support) Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:18 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:20 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:56 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 17:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 17:57 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 19:01 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 10:12 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-24 13:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 14:03 ` Michal Simek [this message]
2014-02-24 14:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-25 12:10 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-25 12:25 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-02 15:43 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-02 16:06 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-04 16:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-05 4:21 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-05 6:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25 21:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-25 22:00 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2015-02-26 21:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-26 10:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-26 13:39 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-26 21:53 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-05 11:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-21 16:23 ` [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 11:27 ` Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-21 15:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-10 13:36 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-10 18:44 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 12:04 ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 13:41 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 13:57 ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 14:06 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 15:42 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 15:51 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:00 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-21 15:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:13 ` Mark Rutland
2014-03-26 10:07 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-04-15 17:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-15 17:55 ` Alan Stern
2014-04-16 4:39 ` Felipe Balbi
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