Re: License oddity in some m68k files

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 03:52:17 EST


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Alan> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:09 -0800, 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
>
> Alan> You'll need to dig back through the archives but this was
> Alan> discussed and resolved when the M68K merge was done or shortly
> Alan> afterwards. There is no obvious problem with the licenses
> Alan> either. I believe Jes Sorensen did the merge in question.
>
> Actually, I think the fpsp040 stuff goes back way further than
> that. To the days when Hamish was in charge.

Indeed. '040 support was added in early 1994. I still remember running
uncached on '040, yielding 1.5 BogoMIPS ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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