Re: [PATCH 01/01] New FBDev driver for Intel Vermilion Range

[Antonino A. Daplas]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 21:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,405 @@
> > > +/*  
> > > + * Copyright (c) Intel Corp. 2007.
> > > + * All Rights Reserved.
> > > + *
> > 
> > Saying 'All Rights Reserved' is usually considered the opposite of
> > licensing your code as GPL. I suppose you need to remove that.
> 
> Arnd, 
> 
> Thanks for your comments, and I'll review and make appropriate changes
> as you've suggested.
> 
> As for the above, I've noticed that drivers/video/epson1355fb.c also has
> this wording and is under the GPL. 
> 

"All Rights Reserved" is written notice, a part of copyright law
formality. Nowadays, your works are protected (under the copyright law)
even without that written notice, so the phrase can be excluded.

I don't think the phrase is incompatible with GPL.

Tony 



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