linux-kernel - Re: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging

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Message-ID: <20140704221205.GA32013@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:12:05 -0700
From:	gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:05:48AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 21:20 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's actually a common pattern:
>     $ git grep -i "Copyright.*All Rights Reserved" v3.16-rc3 | wc -l
>     5203

Yeah, I used to be "worried" about that as well, turns out it means
nothing :)

It's the license of the code that is the issue, not the copyright line,
which all lawyers tell me now shouldn't even be in a file, as it, again,
means nothing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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