From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753429AbaGGNDk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2014 09:03:40 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:35810 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752563AbaGGNDh (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2014 09:03:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:03:00 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: gregkh , LKML Subject: Re: Qualcomm "All Rights Reserved" in Linux staging Message-ID: <20140707140300.62db045b@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1983136768.8892.1404508828693.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> References: <1086604719.8856.1404508237223.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> <1983136768.8892.1404508828693.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Reading this story about Qualcomm lawyers shooting > DMCA takedown requests lightly against github projects: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/07/04/1455200/qualcomm-takes-down-100-github-repositories-with-dmca-notice > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTczNDU > https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-02-Qualcomm.md > > It appears to me that the mere presence of those lines > in Linux staging: > > grep -r "Qualcomm" . |grep -i "rights" > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c: * CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c:* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > ./drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_hw.c:/* CopyRight (C) 2007 Qualcomm Inc. All Rights Reserved. > > might be contradicting the Dual MPL/GPL license > expressed by MODULE_LICENSE() for those files. > Perhaps we should ask some clarification on > licensing of those files to Qualcomm ? Trying to stop idiot DMCA takedowns is pointless. If some random robot issues a takedown the kernel.org folks will get another pointless DMCA notice and the Linux Foundation will have to go and kick backsides. Qualcomm screwed up massively - the problem is that fake DMCA takedowns are never punished. Qualcomm shouldn't just be apologising, they should facing an automatic financial penalty for each bogus filing and whoever signed the notices should be facing their professional body. Alan