From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Murali Karicheri Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:11:17 -0400 Message-ID: <56265995.5000800@ti.com> References: <1444919145-30845-1-git-send-email-w-kwok2@ti.com> <230CBA6E4B6B6B418E8730AC28E6FC7E04229363@DFLE11.ent.ti.com> <56253B91.5040807@ti.com> <4661946.mPHVFLWuan@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4661946.mPHVFLWuan@wuerfel> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Kwok, WingMan" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "robh+dt@kernel.org" , "pawel.moll@arm.com" , "mark.rutland@arm.com" , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , "galak@codeaurora.org" , KISHON VIJAY ABRAHAM , "Quadros, Roger" , "bhelgaas@google.com" , "ssantosh@kernel.org" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 10/20/2015 04:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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 > Thanks Arnd for the clarification. -- Murali Karicheri Linux Kernel, Keystone