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From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Wolfgang Grandegger" <wg@grandegger.com>,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:25:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522AFF20.6000501@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522AFEA8.3020303@hartkopp.net>

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On 09/07/2013 12:23 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> On 06.09.2013 21:37, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
>>>> I think it is necessary to get the Ack of the people mentioned in
>>>> the Cc: commit footers. @Wolfgang: I added a statement
>>>>
>>>>     The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
>>>>     are not restricted to be used by software with a GPL compatible
>>>>     license.
>>>>
>>>> similar to the other can headers. Does that suit you?
>>>
>>> Is this the common phrase other public header files use as well?
>>> What's the motivation for that addition. Likely I might
>>> have missed some related discussion. 
>> This is what the headers by Volkswagen are using, but it's only a
>> suggestion. So it's up to you.
>>
> 
> Yep.
> 
> To make clear that the CAN data structures should not be limited to be used in
> GPL code, this sentence has been added.
> 
> E.g. to allow to implement a similar programming API for BSD, QNX or whatever
> which are obviously not GPL ...
> 
> Don't know if this it suitable for the netlink stuff anyway.

The usage of netlink.h in a closed source app might be a nother usecase.

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-07 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06 14:30 [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-06 15:48 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-06 19:37   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-06 20:35     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-06 20:45       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-06 21:05         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-07 19:34           ` [PATCH] uapi/linux/can: add explicit copyrights to can's netlink header Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-07 19:57             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-07 20:03               ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-07 10:23     ` [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-07 10:25       ` Marc Kleine-Budde [this message]
2013-09-07 19:15         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-08 19:09           ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-08 19:46             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-09 18:06               ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-09 20:01                 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-09 20:29                   ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-10  7:59               ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-10 10:19                 ` Wolfgang Grandegger

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