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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Aug 23 22:40:50 CEST 2017


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.

[...]
>  #   Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> -#   All rights reserved.

You could also remove "(c)" after Copyright.



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