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.