From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/12] qla2xxx: Update license. Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:22:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20051019182201.GA5913@infradead.org> References: <20051013231534.27191.19815.sendpatchset@plap.qlogic.com> <20051013231614.27191.9897.sendpatchset@plap.qlogic.com> <1129275031.2873.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051014162701.GA19098@plap.qlogic.org> <1129315644.5359.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051019173707.GO9087@plap.qlogic.org> <20051019174312.GA5103@infradead.org> <20051019175009.GQ9087@plap.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5542 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbVJSSWD (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:22:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051019175009.GQ9087@plap.qlogic.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Linux-SCSI Mailing List , James Bottomley , Arun Mittal On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:50:09AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Sorry, but QLogic is not requesting that the driver codes be > dual-licensed. The license explcitely states the codes are under the > GPL and the firmware blobs are under the BSD style license. > > Where's the disconnect? sorry, I mis-read the sentence before the BSD-style license. This approach is fine with me, and still required with external firmware aswell so that the distributions have a chance to ship it. It would be nice to just add a the BSD boilerplate to each of the firmware files directly instead of adding a LICENSE file to avoid confusion like mine :)