From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: kaber@stinky.trash.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: altq HFSC port
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:24:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126.102429.55841404.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075128375.1746.392.camel@jzny.localdomain>
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Date: 26 Jan 2004 09:46:16 -0500
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 07:02, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> The last issue is the License: The altq version is released under a
> BSD-style License without advertising clause (the original authors
> kindly agreed to remove it). It is my understanding that this is
> compatible with the GPL, and because the code includes some minor
> amounts of GPL'ed code the correct License is GPL and not
> Dual BSD/GPL. I would be glad if someone can confirm that this is
> correct.
This is probably the most contentious issue (given say current SCO
stoopidty).
Have you talked to the original author on this? I think granting you
written consent to move to GPL may be sufficient.
Yes, let's get this worked out before we stuff it into the tree :)
Patrick, please ask the original author if it's OK to make your
instance of the Linux port pure GPL'd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 12:02 [PATCH]: altq HFSC port Patrick McHardy
2004-01-26 14:46 ` jamal
2004-01-26 18:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-01-26 18:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-01-26 22:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-01-26 18:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-01-26 23:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-28 14:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-01-28 22:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-29 15:15 ` Patrick McHardy
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