From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:00:40 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/60] ARM: tegra: remove unused definitions in headers In-Reply-To: <20160425214615.F309C100386@atlas.denx.de> References: <1461099580-3866-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <1461099580-3866-2-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <20160424102044.2737110028B@atlas.denx.de> <571E7135.2030807@wwwdotorg.org> <20160425214615.F309C100386@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <571E9388.6020402@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 >>>> + * (C) Copyright 2010-2016 >>>> + * NVIDIA Corporation >> >> 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.