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DISCUSSION Jeroen Vreeken 3 participants 6 messages Jan 25, 2005 MIPS

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Hi,

I have been porting the 2.4.18 based edimax sources for the adm5120 to 2.6 over the last few days (its alive, atleast untill it blows up in the delay measurement :). I would like some advice on the copyright notices the ADMtek guys put in these files....

Below I included one such blurp.
To me it reads like a load of crap.
- It is not unpublished as it states, as they distributed both compiled kernels and the sources.
- Tradesecrets are kind of a nonsense if you put your sources on a publicly accessable webserver.
- They linked and distributed the result against GPL (kernel, not just compiled as a module) code so I am pretty sure we can asume that we comply with option II (in other words: we have a license)

Keeping this is going to get people freaked out for sure, would it be ok to just change it to 'Copyright ADMtek' and add a few lines refering to the GPL?

Thanks,
Jeroen

header of arch/mips/am5120/irq.c:

/***************************************************************************** ;
; (C) Unpublished Work of ADMtek Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
;

;       THIS WORK IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL,
;       PROPRIETARY AND TRADESECRET INFORMATION OF ADMTEK INCORPORATED.
;       ACCESS TO THIS WORK IS RESTRICTED TO (I) ADMTEK EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE A
;       NEED TO KNOW TO PERFORM TASKS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THEIR ASSIGNMENTS
;       AND (II) ENTITIES OTHER THAN ADMTEK WHO HAVE ENTERED INTO APPROPRIATE
;       LICENSE AGREEMENTS.  NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED, PRACTICED,
;       PERFORMED, COPIED, DISTRIBUTED, REVISED, MODIFIED, TRANSLATED,
;       ABBRIDGED, CONDENSED, EXPANDED, COLLECTED, COMPILED, LINKED, RECAST,
;       TRANSFORMED OR ADAPTED WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF ADMTEK.
;       ANY USE OR EXPLOITATION OF THIS WORK WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION COULD
;       SUBJECT THE PERPERTRATOR TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LIABILITY.
;
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;
;    Project : ADM5120
;    Creator : [email protected]
;    File    : arch/mips/am5120/irq.c

; Date : 2003.3.4
; Abstract:
;
;Modification History:
;

;*****************************************************************************/

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Quoted 51 lines · Jeroen Vreeken

Hi,

I have been porting the 2.4.18 based edimax sources for the adm5120 to 2.6 over the last few days (its alive, atleast untill it blows up in the delay measurement :). I would like some advice on the copyright notices the ADMtek guys put in these files....

Below I included one such blurp.
To me it reads like a load of crap.
- It is not unpublished as it states, as they distributed both
compiled kernels and the sources.
- Tradesecrets are kind of a nonsense if you put your sources on a
publicly accessable webserver.
- They linked and distributed the result against GPL (kernel, not just
compiled as a module) code so I am pretty sure we can asume that we comply with option II (in other words: we have a license)

Keeping this is going to get people freaked out for sure, would it be ok to just change it to 'Copyright ADMtek' and add a few lines refering to the GPL?

Thanks,
Jeroen

header of arch/mips/am5120/irq.c:

/*****************************************************************************

;
; (C) Unpublished Work of ADMtek Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
;

;       THIS WORK IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK AND CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL,
;       PROPRIETARY AND TRADESECRET INFORMATION OF ADMTEK INCORPORATED.
;       ACCESS TO THIS WORK IS RESTRICTED TO (I) ADMTEK EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE A
;       NEED TO KNOW TO PERFORM TASKS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THEIR ASSIGNMENTS
;       AND (II) ENTITIES OTHER THAN ADMTEK WHO HAVE ENTERED INTO APPROPRIATE
;       LICENSE AGREEMENTS.  NO PART OF THIS WORK MAY BE USED, PRACTICED,
;       PERFORMED, COPIED, DISTRIBUTED, REVISED, MODIFIED, TRANSLATED,
;       ABBRIDGED, CONDENSED, EXPANDED, COLLECTED, COMPILED, LINKED, RECAST,
;       TRANSFORMED OR ADAPTED WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF ADMTEK.
;       ANY USE OR EXPLOITATION OF THIS WORK WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION COULD
;       SUBJECT THE PERPERTRATOR TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LIABILITY.

; ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;

;    Project : ADM5120
;    Creator : [email protected]
;    File    : arch/mips/am5120/irq.c

; Date : 2003.3.4
; Abstract:
;
;Modification History:
;

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;*****************************************************************************/

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Hi Jeroen:
How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
I have looked for it for a long time. :-(

TR Chang
Best regards.

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Quoted 10 lines · Jeroen Vreeken
Quoted 8 lines · Tsang-Ren Chang

Hi Jeroen:
How could you get the edimax-based kernel source for adm5120?
I have looked for it for a long time. :-(

TR Chang
Best regards.

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Its at http://www.edimax.co.uk/download/Linux-SC.zip but it is really slow...

Jeroen

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Hi Jeroen:
Thank you very much! :-D
I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the latest offical kernel (ex: 2.4.29).

Best regards,
TR Chang

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On Tue, 2005-01-25 22:53:17 +0800, Tsang-Ren Chang <[email protected]> wrote in message <[email protected]>:

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I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the latest offical kernel (ex: 2.4.29).

Maybe better try something more recent like the linux-2.6 series?

MfG, JBG

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Quoted 5 lines · Jan-Benedict Glaw

On Tue, 2005-01-25 22:53:17 +0800, Tsang-Ren Chang <[email protected]> wrote in message <[email protected]>:

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I will try to port the old edimax-based kernel to the latest offical kernel (ex: 2.4.29).

Maybe better try something more recent like the linux-2.6 series?

Already on it....
I expect to post some patches soon with the basic stuff to get it running... (board and serial stuff, not ethernet, usb or mtd yet)

Jeroen