[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/60] ARM: tegra: remove unused definitions in headers

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Apr 25 23:46:15 CEST 2016


Dear Stephen,

In message <571E7135.2030807 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > Can you please get rid of this "All rights reserved." ?
> 
> Sorry, that is the format I'm required to use by NVIDIA legal.
> 
> To address your next question, "all rights reserved" is 100% compatible 
> with OSS licenses. Equally, the phrase already exists throughout both 
> the U-Boot and Linux kernel code-base (just a couple of prominent 
> examples) for both NVIDIA's copyright notices, and those of many other 
> prominent entities such as The Linux Foundation, Red Hat, Intel, The 
> Chromium OS Authors, etc.

Yes, I know these arguments.  But actually this is b*llsh*t.
Is there really no chance to drop that?

> >> - *  (C) Copyright 2010-2015
> >> - *  NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
> >> + * (C) Copyright 2010-2016
> >> + * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
> 
> The primary purpose of this patch-set isn't to clean up copyright 
> notices. As such, where I added new copyright notices I followed the 
> format that NVIDIA legal requests me to. However, where I simply edited 
> the date in existing notices I didn't do any other cleanup.

Well, obviously other people were either notrequested to add this "All
rights reserved." phrase, or found other ways to avoid it.

Can you please try to do the same?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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