[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/60] ARM: tegra: remove unused definitions in headers

Stephen Warren
2016-04-25T22:00:40Z

On 04/25/2016 03:46 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stephen,
>
> In message <571E7135.2030807@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> Can you please get rid of this "All rights reserved." ?
>>
>> Sorry, that is the format I'm required to use by NVIDIA legal.
>>
>> To address your next question, "all rights reserved" is 100% compatible
>> with OSS licenses. Equally, the phrase already exists throughout both
>> the U-Boot and Linux kernel code-base (just a couple of prominent
>> examples) for both NVIDIA's copyright notices, and those of many other
>> prominent entities such as The Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Intel, The
>> Chromium OS Authors, etc.
>
> Yes, I know these arguments. But actually this is b*llsh*t.
> Is there really no chance to drop that?

I could ask NVIDIA legal again, but it's been discuss before and the
guidance given was not changed, so I don't imagine it would be productive.

>>>> - * (C) Copyright 2010-2015
>>>> - * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
>>>> + * (C) Copyright 2010-2016
>>>> + * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
>>
>> The primary purpose of this patch-set isn't to clean up copyright
>> notices. As such, where I added new copyright notices I followed the
>> format that NVIDIA legal requests me to. However, where I simply edited
>> the date in existing notices I didn't do any other cleanup.
>
> Well, obviously other people were either notrequested to add this "All
> rights reserved." phrase, or found other ways to avoid it.
>
> Can you please try to do the same?

Given that message about says "2010" as the start date, I imagine the
file was created (or copied blindly from another file that was created)
before NVIDIA legal gave guidance for us to follow. I could only do the
same by not following their current guidance, or claiming I forgot this
time, which would be rather hard to do given this email thread. Either
way, our internal systems will ding me for this when I rebase the copy
of U-Boot we use internally, so I'll have to explain it then.