From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:05:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/6] sg3_utils: new package In-Reply-To: <201301072256.26160.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1357591399-3566-1-git-send-email-marek.belisko@open-nandra.com> <20130107225223.10cdf4e6@skate> <201301072256.26160.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <50EBD33C.1090603@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/01/13 22:56, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Thomas, Belisko, All, > > On Monday 07 January 2013 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:45:50 +0100, Belisko Marek wrote: >>>> You should be work specific than just BSD and GPL. Like BSD-3c or >>>> BSD-4c, GPLv2, GPLv2+, GPLv3, GPLv3+, etc. >>> After proper reading of COPYING file it seems it GPLv2+ >>> "Some of the older utilities are covered by the GPL. More precisely: >>> You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the >>> GNU General Public License either version 2, or (at your option) >>> any later version." but in same file there is no mention about BSD >>> license version. >> >> There is a BSD_LICENSE file that contains a BSD three clause license, > > Actually, what matters in the content of the source files. Do some of > them refer to either license? > - if the files only refer to GPLv2+, then the BSD-3c does not apply, > - if the files only refer to BSD-3c, then the GPLv2+ does not apply, > - if some file refer to one or two of the licenses, then both apply. - if all files refer to GPLv2+ and BSD-3c, then either applies. Putting GPLv2+ BSD-3c implies that parts are GPLv2+, other parts and BSD-3c. But it's also possible (and likely) that either applies. BTW, it's not possible that both apply because they have conflicting terms. Regards, Arnout > > (/me likes how he managed to line up the above! ;-) ) > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F