From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7EE7CC0 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Aug 2017 07:05:39 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,421,1498546800"; d="scan'208";a="122237267" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Aug 2017 07:05:39 -0700 To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev@dpdk.org References: <20170821135103.22631-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <3084352.EgKNohe7Fy@xps> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:05:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3084352.EgKNohe7Fy@xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] remove redundant file header note X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:06:48 -0000 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. >