On Wednesday 08 July 2009 15:57, Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On Wednesday 08 July 2009 15:40:08 Matthias Fuchs wrote: > > I am just cleaning up cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_pci.c (mainly coding style stuff). > > I am wondering about the file's header. I think even when this code comes > > initially from IBM there is not much left from original IBM code. > > Yes, this could be the case. > > > So can we replace the header with the widely used GPL template? > > I'm not sure here. The paragraph clearly states: > > * Any person who transfers this source code or any derivative work > * must include the IBM copyright notice, this paragraph, and the > * preceding two paragraphs in the transferred software. > > So even if the current version has not much in common with the original > version (IIRC cloned from IBM PIBS), we still have to carry it with us. At > least this is how I interpret it. But we could prepend the typical header which brings us to something like this:
/* * (C) Copyright 1998, Mark Game * (C) Copyright 1995, IBM Corporation * * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this * project. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, * MA 02111-1307 USA * * * This source code has been made available to you by IBM on an AS-IS * basis. Anyone receiving this source is licensed under IBM * copyrights to use it in any way he or she deems fit, including * copying it, modifying it, compiling it, and redistributing it either * with or without modifications. No license under IBM patents or * patent applications is to be implied by the copyright license. * * Any user of this software should understand that IBM cannot provide * technical support for this software and will not be responsible for * any consequences resulting from the use of this software. * * Any person who transfers this source code or any derivative work * must include the IBM copyright notice, this paragraph, and the * preceding two paragraphs in the transferred software. */ > > > And what about the in-file history? I vote for removing it but of cource > > keeping/adding copryright notices from Marc Game and Stefan. > > Yes, removing the in-file history should be done. We have other ways to track > the file history. Fine. Matthias _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
