From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:24:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4661946.mPHVFLWuan@wuerfel> References: <1444919145-30845-1-git-send-email-w-kwok2@ti.com> <230CBA6E4B6B6B418E8730AC28E6FC7E04229363@DFLE11.ent.ti.com> <56253B91.5040807@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56253B91.5040807@ti.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Murali Karicheri Cc: "mark.rutland@arm.com" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "pawel.moll@arm.com" , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , "Kwok, WingMan" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "ssantosh@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KISHON VIJAY ABRAHAM , "robh+dt@kernel.org" , "galak@codeaurora.org" , "bhelgaas@google.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "Quadros, Roger" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote: > Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you > expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If > so, that seems weired to me. > > Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in > the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that > is applicable. > > ==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c ======================= > * 2. Redistributions 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. > ========================================================================= > I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary > either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this > term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with > the product AFAIK. Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the subject. Arnd