Re: License oddity in some m68k files

[Ric Wheeler]

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.

ric
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