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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Stefan Roese,

In message <200909022057.53144.sr at denx.de> you wrote:
>
> > 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?

I am not a lawyer, but I'll ask one. So far my understanding is that
"All Rights Reserved" is incompatible with GPL. License checking tools
like OSLC support this opinion, but as I said: I'll ask someone who is
supposed to know better.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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