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Message-ID: <1983136768.8892.1404508828693.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:	gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging

Hi Greg,

Reading this story about Qualcomm lawyers shooting
DMCA takedown requests lightly against github projects:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/07/04/1455200/qualcomm-takes-down-100-github-repositories-with-dmca-notice
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTczNDU
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-02-Qualcomm.md

It appears to me that the mere presence of those lines
in Linux staging:

grep -r "Qualcomm" . |grep -i "rights"
./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c: * CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved.
./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c:* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved.
./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_hw.c:/* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved.

might be contradicting the Dual MPL/GPL license
expressed by MODULE_LICENSE() for those files.
Perhaps we should ask some clarification on
licensing of those files to Qualcomm ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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