From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:05:41 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <4A49725D.6000508@gmail.com> (message from Jerry Van Baren on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:03:09 -0400) References: <20090618145128.69F27832E416@gemini.denx.de> <4A49725D.6000508@gmail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Files without a copyright notice and a license notice are a legal problem. Legally, every file is copyrighted. If there's no copyright notice, that just means it gives no info about who the copyright holder is. The lack of a license notice is a problem. If the file is trivial, just a few lines, maybe it does not matter. But otherwise, if there is no license, that means it doesn't give people permission to copy or change or redistribute the file. Perhaps even the U-boot developers don't have this permission.