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SubjectRe: License oddity in some m68k files


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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