Re: license issues of can-utils

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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On 08/17/2013 09:05 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I started to create a Debian package for can-utils and while looking
> through the source files to collect their copyright and license
> information, I noticed two things that probably need fixing before a
> can-utils package can enter Debian.

[...]

> b) several headers below include/socketcan/can have a copyright but no
> license. I think the best approach here (as also suggested by Marc in a
> private discussion) is to fix the original headers in the kernel and
> then copy these back into can-utils. I assume the standard boilerplate
> with BSD-3-Clause + GPL-2 is the desired addition? If yes I can prepare
> a patch.

tl;dr IANAL: netlink.h GPL, all others DUAL BSD/GPL.

Marc

We're talking about the uapi can headers which are:

include/uapi/linux/can/error.h		added with initial code which is Dual BSD/GPL

Copyright by VW, Author Oliver.


include/uapi/linux/can.h		added with initial code which is Dual BSD/GPL
include/uapi/linux/can/raw.h		added with initial code which is Dual BSD/GPL

Both copyright by VW, Author Oliver and Urs.


include/uapi/linux/can/bcm.h		bcm.c has MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
include/uapi/linux/can/gw.h		gw.c has MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL")

Both copyright by VW, Author Oliver.


include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h	was added by Wolfgang Grandegger:
  39549ee can: CAN Network device driver and Netlink interface
dev.c holds the netlink parsing code which has MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

Copyright by Wolfgang.

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