[dpdk-dev] [RFC] remove redundant file header note

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon Aug 21 15:51:03 CEST 2017


Some of the "All rights reserved." note looks like duplicate, there is
one for each copyright note in the same line, and extra one after the
copyright notes. Sample is in below patch.

Although this looks like a duplication, I am not sure if this is a legal
requirement, or legally has a meaning.

And this usage keep increasing when a new file created, because header copied
from an old file..

If there is no objection I can send a patch to clean them, there are
some number of them now:
$ git grep "[*#]\s*All rights reserved." | wc -l
1373

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
---
 Makefile | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f4b807ebd..795ef03b4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #   BSD LICENSE
 #
 #   Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
-#   All rights reserved.
 #
 #   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 #   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-- 
2.13.5



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