[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] License cleanup: remove all files with "All Rights Reserved" notices.

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Wed Sep 2 20:57:53 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 02 September 2009 18:13:36 Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Roland, is it possible for you to remove the "All Rights Reserved" from
>  > this file as it conflicts with the GPL? Otherwise PPC4xx PCIe support
>  > will be removed soon.
>
> I'm sorry, but that's nonsense -- just do "git grep -i 'all rights
> reserved'" in a kernel source tree to see just how fine "all rights
> reserved" is in a GPLed project as long as a GPL license is granted too.

Wolfgang, what's you comment on this?

> In any case I've never touched that file in uboot as far as I know, so
> any licensing problems are your own creation I think.

Right. We must have copied this line from the Linux 440SPe PCIe driver which 
was a starting point for the U-Boot driver version.

Cheers,
Stefan

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