Re: License oddity in some m68k files

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 15:13:53 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Greg KH wrote:

> Someone recently pointed out to me the following wording on some of the
> m68k files that reads:
>
> | Copyright (C) Motorola, Inc. 1990
> | All Rights Reserved
> |
> | THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF MOTOROLA
> | The copyright notice above does not evidence any
> | actual or intended publication of such source code.

It has been published like this from Motorola and still is available at
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/software/app_software/code_examples/MC68040FPSP.html

> Any ideas of how they made it into our tree? And any chance of
> correcting them to be the correct license or removing them?

The above is only a copyright notice, does this already constitute a
license?
The actual license is in the README file.

bye, Roman
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