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From: "Patrick Brünn" <P.Bruenn@beckhoff.com>
To: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel-dev <linux-kernel-dev@beckhoff.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
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	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"open list:REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC) SUBSYSTEM" 
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	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] rtc: add mxc driver for i.MX53
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:24:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB206AB2B1BD448954845CE6FF69A8E01CB531375@NT-Mail07.beckhoff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFm3uHAXKr7KiFeyvYb77jot8M_4rH-cqt2Ze3AbnOiZ_wiwg@mail.gmail.com>

>From: Philippe Ombredanne [mailto:pombredanne@nexb.com]
>Sent: Donnerstag, 30. November 2017 15:00
>On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Patrick Brünn <P.Bruenn@beckhoff.com>
>wrote:
>
>Thomas:
>I tend to prefer as Linus pointed the // style throughout when there
>is only a license and copyright involved. Here this would mean:
>
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +// Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All Rights
>Reserved.
>
>What's you take since you wrote the doc for this? And is there still
>some updates needed for this since your last patch set?
>
While looking closer into different files I think it would become multiline again:
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Real Time Clock (RTC) Driver for i.MX53
+ * Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
+ */

>
>Patrick:
>Side note a trailing  "All Rights Reserved." in a copyright statement
>is never needed, even though customarily cargo culted by everyone,
>including me.
>Started in 1910, it become fully obsolete in 2000 thanks to Nicaragua
>[1] signing the Berne convention.
>
>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved
Interessting. I just kept it because it was in the original file from freescale.
But with this background, I think it's fine to drop it, now.

Thanks,
Patrick
Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG | Managing Director: Dipl. Phys. Hans Beckhoff
Registered office: Verl, Germany | Register court: Guetersloh HRA 7075

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28  7:39 [PATCH] rtc: add mxc driver for i.MX53 linux-kernel-dev
2017-11-29 22:11 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-30  8:18   ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-30 13:36     ` Patrick Brünn
2017-11-30 13:42       ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-30 14:00       ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-30 14:24         ` Patrick Brünn [this message]
2017-11-30 14:27       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-11-30  9:50 ` Sascha Hauer
2017-11-30 10:53   ` Lothar Waßmann
2017-11-30 11:21 ` Lothar Waßmann

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