Hi All I removed almost all. :-) M > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Michal Simek wrote: >>> Absolutely, but is it really necessary to have 14-16 lines of comment >>> (including a copyright notice) for a file whose single real line is just >>> to include another file? i.e. reduce all these to 1 line files. >> Can I do it? I think every file need license. > > If you want a good answer on that, ask your lawyer. In general, every file > comes with a 'license' (GPLv2) and 'copyright' (you or the person you copied > from) even if you don't put either statement in the file. Files smaller than > some 10 lines are usually not considered to be covered by copyright, even > if you have the statement in there. > > Most files nowadays are written by large corporations that have strict rules > about what you must put in there to protect their intellectual property. > > It's certainly safe to leave out the file names from the comments, they don't > add any value at all. > Similarly, you should easily be able to leave out the license statement, > unless you are under a contract that forces you to leave them present. > Most people here will be happier if you remove the license statements. > > The most tricky one part is the copyright statement ("Copyright 2012 > Big Corporation of America"), which you strictly speaking should never > remove from a file unless you have permission from the copyright holder. > Many of your files in your patch set are obviously copies of existing > kernel files, with the original copyright notice replaced with "Atmark > Techno, inc.". You can draw your own conclusions from that ;-) > > Obviously, I am not a lawyer, so don't consider this as legal advice. > > I really hope this doesn't turn into a flamewar, as discussions on > intellectual property sometimes do. > > Arnd <>< > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html