[RFC 18/18] arm: mm: qsd8x50: Fix incorrect permission faults

Daniel Walker dwalker at codeaurora.org
Tue Jan 19 12:49:29 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:43 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Everything I release will ultimately be licensed under the GPLv2
> > regardless of the license in the current files.. So it's just a matter
> > of removing that old license ..
> 
> Ok.  Please do :-)
> 
> > > For another file, I'm not sure that adding "All rights reserved" is ok.
> > > Under the GPL, all rights are _not_ reserved:
> > 
> > This would be a problem because our lawyers mandate this.. AFAIK, it
> > doesn't change the licensing tho.
> 
> If it doesn't change the license, why is it mandated?

I don't know .. But I would guess it has to do with re-licensing under a
BSD license potentially .

> Sounds like your lawyers aren't very familiar with open source licensing.

I'm not sure how familiar they are with it ..

Daniel




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