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

Guennadi Liakhovetski lg at denx.de
Wed Jul 9 01:33:09 CEST 2008


On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> 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.

hm, starting from how many lines of code? Copy-paste is one of the main 
programming technics, as we all know:-) If you copy one line, you don't 
have to transfer all copyrights over, do you?

Thanks
Guennadi
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