From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/12] qla2xxx: Update license. Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:37:40 +1000 Message-ID: <434FB4A4.2040904@torque.net> References: <20051013231534.27191.19815.sendpatchset@plap.qlogic.com> <20051013231614.27191.9897.sendpatchset@plap.qlogic.com> <1129275031.2873.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zorg.st.net.au ([203.16.233.9]:63662 "EHLO borg.st.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750747AbVJNNg6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:36:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1129275031.2873.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Vasquez , Linux-SCSI Mailing List , James Bottomley Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:16 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > >>Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez > > >>+++ b/Documentation/scsi/LICENSE.qla2xxx >>@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ >>+Copyright (c) 2003-2005 QLogic Corporation >>+QLogic Linux Fibre Channel HBA Driver >>+ >>+This program includes a device driver for Linux 2.6 that may be >>+distributed with QLogic hardware specific firmware binary file. >>+You may modify and redistribute the device driver code under the >>+GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software >>+Foundation (version 2 or a later version) and/or under the >>+following terms, as applicable: >>+ >>+ 1. Redistribution of source code must retain the above >>+ copyright notice, this list of conditions and the >>+ following disclaimer. >>+ >>+ 2. Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above >>+ copyright notice, this list of conditions and the >>+ following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other >>+ materials provided with the distribution. >>+ >>+ 3. The name of QLogic Corporation may not be used to >>+ endorse or promote products derived from this software >>+ without specific prior written permission. >>+ > > > > as one of the people who made significant changes to the qlogic driver I > object to this license change, especially because it was a one sided > change without consultation beforehand. Arjan, Apart from not being consulted beforehand, what precisely is objectionable in the above? > James: please do not apply this. > > Andrew: you can't do this. You just CANNOT change the license of code > you don't own fully without consent of ALL contributors. Often wondered about that. Someone sends me a bug fix, I accept it, credit them and then at some later stage want to broaden the license on that code from GPL to BSD (say). Do I need the bug fixer's permission? Doug Gilbert