From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John W. Linville Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:14:47 -0400 Subject: Licensing wlc_phy_radio.h and brcm80211 (was: [PATCH 3/3] b43: N-PHY: add 2055 radio regs) In-Reply-To: References: <20101014165111.GA22130@suse.de> <20101014171739.GA28522@suse.de> Message-ID: <20101014181446.GC2427@tuxdriver.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Greg KH , =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Stefanik , b43-dev , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Henry Ptasinski , Brett Rudley , Nohee Ko On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:38:49PM +0200, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: > 2010/10/14 Greg KH : > > I don't think that bitfields are copyrightable :) > > What about rest of the code? brcm80211 seems to support even newer > devices we don't even try to support in b43 yet. > > Can I treat code as pure-GPL and do not care about that > maybe-not-GPL-compatible statement in header? IANAL, but I think you should include the copyright statment with a comment like "some portions covered by the following" at the top of the files including such code. Beyond that, I think you are fine including it under GPL terms (which are merely more restrictive, neither less restrictive nor incompatible). John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville at tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.