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

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Aug 24 16:05:38 CEST 2017


On 8/23/2017 9:40 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 21/08/2017 15:51, Ferruh Yigit:
>> 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.
> 
> I think the whole sentence "All rights reserved" has no meaning
> and could be removed in both lines, but I am not a lawyer :)
> I'm afraid lawyers won't take the risk to change these lines.

I also don't dare to take that risk :)
Let me send a patch just to remove standalone "All rights reserved." lines..

> 
> [...]
>>  #   Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>> -#   All rights reserved.
> 
> You could also remove "(c)" after Copyright.
> 



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