From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Lee Howard <lee.howard@mainpine.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the PCI serial driver code GPL v2 or v3
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:18:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081116151818.GD9987@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081109193357.GA1549@ucw.cz>
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > It was based upon the original serial.c by Ted T'so, but with some
> > reworking to add a separate quirks table, and quite a number of cleanups.
> >
> > My personal position is that code I author is GPLv2, and not GPLv2 or
> > later. So it's a question whether you consider that I'm the author
> > of the code in that file, or whether you think it's Ted's with my
> > contributions were under Ted's original terms.
>
> Original poster wants GPLv3 version for use in grub-2. Would you be
> willing to relicense your changes in serial_8250.c, so that he can do
> that? Would Ted be willing to do that?
I'd much rather have grub-2 relicense itself to GPLv2. :-)
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-06 17:43 Is the PCI serial driver code GPL v2 or v3 n0ano
2008-11-06 18:52 ` Peter Alfredsen
2008-11-06 19:12 ` Russell King
2008-11-06 19:20 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-06 19:39 ` Lee Howard
2008-11-06 20:15 ` Russell King
2008-11-06 20:33 ` Russell King
2008-11-07 6:06 ` Lee Howard
2008-11-07 16:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-11 23:05 ` Russell King
2008-11-09 19:34 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-16 15:18 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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