[coreboot] Long license headers (ANGER WARNING)

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Mar 3 18:41:50 CET 2015


ron minnich wrote:
> > In the past Ron also disagreed on changing headers by Samsung – taken
> > from U-Boot I think – saying their lawyers drafted those and therefore
> > it should stay that way.
> 
> That's right, you don't get to change other people's headers, especially
> when the headers are created by company lawyers.

This is very true.

Every project *does* however get to decide on formal requirements for
all contributions, and reject contributions which fail to meet those
requirements.

But creating and upholding requirements isn't always important.


//Peter



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