[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Blackfin: bf533-ezkit: shuffle flash defines a little

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Mike,

> On Sunday 01 June 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> In message <200806011701.27394.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>> > > Please STOP messing with license headers.
>> >
>> > so you want it in a separate commit ?
>>
>> I do not want to see any of these one-line GPL "headers.  Please  use
>> the  regular,  full  heade. And especially do never remove these from
>> any files where they are present.
>
> having to scroll a page to see anything actually useful seems pretty wasteful 
> to me.

Many burdens the legal system put upon software seem wasteful to me, but
I still cannot simply erase it because of my personal taste.

> plus the full header breaks when the FSF moves around (and in fact,
> there are a ton of such outdated headers in u-boot right now).

I am not sure whether simply pointing to something is valid in legal
context.  

What I am sure however is that your patches are *not* valid, because
they point into nothingness.  It is neccessary to include the full
licences with the source code, even URLs are not ok.  Handwaving (even
if it is totally clear to you) does not hold up in legal contexts.

So the most I could think of is to include a file called GPL-2 and
directly point to that file.

But still, this is only my personal interpretation.

Cheers
  Detlev

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