[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 04/10 v2] [ARM] TQMA31: add new board with i.MX31 processor

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807090048470.30894 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
>
> > +# Copyright (C) 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg at denx.de>
> > +# Copyright (C) 2008, Jens Gehrlein <sew_s at tqs.de>
> 
> Thanks for the credit, but, although IANAL, I think, one does not _have_ 
> to preserve the copyright of the original file when it gets copied to a 

Yes, of course you do. If you copy code, you *must* honour existing
copyrights and have not any right to remove these.

> new one. Otherwise most open-source files would have a veeeery long list 
> of Copyrights:-) Am I right?

No, you are fundamentally wrong.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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