From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@wanadoo.es>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6-bk 1/1] tg3: add license
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:45:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41914889.7060308@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041109124704.1f8cb3ad.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> Why add this, it's basically implied?
Maybe it should be answered by a lawyer,
but it's better to protect our freedom because
law is very 'variable'.
> We have a copy of the file "COPYING" at the top
> of the source tree, which is why we don't duplicate
> it's contents nor excerpts all over the tree.
This is not a duplicate, it's only an advertisement.
Long time ago Torvalds wrote at COPYING:
"[...]
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
[...]"
what does MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") mean at tg3.c ?
GPL 1.0 ?
GPL 2 ?
any GPL ?
only 'GPL' ?
Is possible to write BSD or BSD/GPL or GPLv2 or GPL drivers/code
*inside* Linux kernel ?
--
TLOZ OOT: worse than drugs.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-09 10:59 [PATCH 2.6-bk 1/1] tg3: add license Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-11-09 20:47 ` David S. Miller
2004-11-09 22:45 ` Xose Vazquez Perez [this message]
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