On 07/03/2019 15.40, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:21:47PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 07/03/2019 15.16, Kevin Wolf wrote: >>> Am 07.03.2019 um 09:14 hat Thomas Huth geschrieben: >>>> On 07/03/2019 08.22, elena.ufimts...@oracle.com wrote: >>>>> From: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> >>>>> >>>>> TODO: Make relevant changes to the doc. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <john.g.john...@oracle.com> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.ra...@oracle.com> >>>>> --- >>>>> docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.txt | 1109 >>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> 1 file changed, 1109 insertions(+) >>>>> create mode 100644 docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.txt >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.txt >>>>> b/docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.txt >>>>> new file mode 100644 >>>>> index 0000000..e29c6c8 >>>>> --- /dev/null >>>>> +++ b/docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.txt >>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,1109 @@ >>>>> +/* >>>>> + * Copyright 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. >>>>> + * >>>>> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining >>>>> a copy >>>>> + * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), >>>>> to deal >>>>> + * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the >>>>> rights >>>>> + * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or >>>>> sell >>>>> + * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is >>>>> + * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: >>>>> + * >>>>> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be >>>>> included in >>>>> + * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. >>>>> + * >>>>> + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, >>>>> EXPRESS OR >>>>> + * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF >>>>> MERCHANTABILITY, >>>>> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT >>>>> SHALL >>>>> + * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR >>>>> OTHER >>>>> + * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, >>>>> ARISING FROM, >>>>> + * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER >>>>> DEALINGS IN >>>>> + * THE SOFTWARE. >>>>> + */ >>>> >>>> Somehow weird to see such a big license statement talking about >>>> "software", but which applies to a text file only... Not sure if it is >>>> an option for you, but maybe one of the Creative Common licenses >>>> (dual-licensed with the GPLv2+) would be a better fit? E.g. for the QEMU >>>> website, the content is dual-licensed: https://www.qemu.org/license.html >>> >>> While we're talking about licenses, the "All rights reserved." notice is >>> out of place in a license header that declares that a lot of permissions >>> are granted. Better to remove it to avoid any ambiguities that could >>> result from the contradiction. (Applies to the whole series.) >> >> Apart from that, it is also not required for other work anymore. See: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved > > Interesting. Do folks know why the Linux Foundation does it? > > See for example cf0d37aecc06801d4847fb36740da4a5690d9d45 (in the Linux kernel) > where every change they stamp it with their 'All Rights Reserved'?
No clue why they use it. Seems unnecessary to me. But as always: IANAL Thomas
