[U-Boot] "All rights reserved" in drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c

Paulraj, Sandeep s-paulraj at ti.com
Tue Sep 8 16:10:07 CEST 2009


I don't think we received a patch.

How are we moving forward as this is required for the NAND driver to work.

Thanks,
Sandeep


> Hi Guido,
> 
> A while back you added nand_util.c to U-Boot, with a copyright statement
>   of "Copyright (C) 2006 by Weiss-Electronic GmbH.  All rights reserved."
> 
> At best the "All rights reserved" clause is meaningless, and at worst it
> is in conflict with the statement that the code is licensed under the
> GPL.  Wolfgang Denk has taken the latter interpretation, and is
> threatening to remove code from the repository that contains this phrase.
> 
> Are you authorized to remove the "All rights reserved" clause on behalf
> of Weiss-Electronic GmbH?  If so, please submit a patch doing so.  If
> not, and you can't find someone who can, it looks like we'll have to
> replace the code.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott



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