Re: License oddity in some m68k files

[Kumar Gala]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 07:21 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > > The language in the source files is pretty strong and this looks  
> > > like
> > > Motorola should be asked to rerelease the files with a normal
> > > copyright notice in place of the current language...
> >
> > Its standard boilerplate from the period. Its a perfectly normal and
> > clear copyright notice.
> >
> > Alan
> Actually, that is the exact language our lawyers still give us to  
> use today when we have not settled on license terms when we want to  
> share code in a severely limited fashion.
>
> I still think it best that they (Freescale) modify their language  
> to reference the actual license grant in the README.

Good luck finding anyone in Freescale that would have any idea about  
this.

- kumar
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