Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/pcap: convert license headers to SPDX tags

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

18/12/2017 22:18, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 12/18/2017 1:06 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> 
> <...>
> 
> > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > + * Copyright(c) 2010-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > + * Copyright(c) 2014 6WIND S.A.
> > + * All rights reserved.
> >   */
> 
> Hi Hemant, Thomas,
> 
> Can you please suggest about extra "All rights reserved." line.
> 
> It is in the part of the BSD header, and I _assume_ that has been intended to
> cover all "Copyright" lines above it.
> But since some of the Copyright holders (at least Intel ones) already has that
> in same line with copyright and I _assume_ this is intentional because of legal
> requirements, can we remove that line.
> 
> I guess we have two options while removing it, applying it to all previous
> Copyright lines (B) or just remove it (A):
> 
> (A)
>  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>  Copyright(c) 2010-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>  Copyright(c) 2014 6WIND S.A.
> 
> (B)
>  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>  Copyright(c) 2010-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>  Copyright(c) 2014 6WIND S.A. All rights reserved.
> 
> Can we go with option (A)?

I have absolutely no idea about "All rights reserved".
Please get some inputs from Intel lawyers.