From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760255AbaGDWMX (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:12:23 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56833 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753087AbaGDWMW (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:12:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:12:05 -0700 From: gregkh To: Paul Bolle Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , LKML Subject: Re: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging Message-ID: <20140704221205.GA32013@kroah.com> References: <1983136768.8892.1404508828693.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> <1404511548.18844.3.camel@x220> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1404511548.18844.3.camel@x220> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:05:48AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 21:20 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > grep -r "Qualcomm" . |grep -i "rights" > > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c: * CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c:* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_hw.c:/* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > That's actually a common pattern: > $ git grep -i "Copyright.*All Rights Reserved" v3.16-rc3 | wc -l > 5203 Yeah, I used to be "worried" about that as well, turns out it means nothing :) It's the license of the code that is the issue, not the copyright line, which all lawyers tell me now shouldn't even be in a file, as it, again, means nothing. thanks, greg k-h