On 02/24/2014 02:41 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying for >>> the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has the >>> Gold, makes the Rules), and each of our respective corporate lawyers >>> may have different opinions about what might happen if the question >>> was ever to be adjudicated in court. >> >> Aren't all these points already answered by SPDX project? >> I believe that they should know how this should be handled properly. > > The SPDX can not give legal advice; not to you, and not to your > company. One lawyer might believe that > > /* > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ > > Might be sufficient. Others might believe you need to do: > > /* > * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012. > * > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ > > Still others might believe you need at the very least: > > /* > * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012. > * > * All Rights Reserved. > * > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ Aren't these differences already present in the header? > > As far as I know, there is no case law on point about whether or not > SPDX-License-Identifier has legal significance, or whether the court > would consider that to be a valid copyright permission statement. So > any "answers" made by any lawyer would be guesses. Of course, an > guess by a lawyer which is retained by *you* or your company and fully > informed with the unique parameters of your situation would constitute > legal advice. Anything else, including anything any of us could say > on this mailing list, would be biovating. :-) I think make sense to wait for Wolfgang about his experience because I believe he has considered it before u-boot change. BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-) Thanks, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng), OpenPGP -> KeyID: FE3D1F91 w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel - Microblaze cpu - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM architecture Microblaze U-BOOT custodian and responsible for u-boot arm zynq platform
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