From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Weinigel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/21] advansys: version, copyright, etc Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:25:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20070726212517.55b4617a@localhost.localdomain> References: <11854705771114-git-send-email-matthew@wil.cx> <46A8EE61.5070307@garzik.org> <20070726190349.GL19275@parisc-linux.org> <46A8F137.1020006@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 2-1-3-15a.ens.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.31.214]:56446 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932950AbXGZT7O (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:59:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46A8F137.1020006@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:08:39 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:56:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >>> Exercise my right to change the license from dual BSD/GPL to GPL > >> What do the other copyright holders think about this? > > They're not contactable. > AFAIK that does not eliminate your legal obligation... Isn't the whole point of dual BSD/GPL that it makes it possible to make the driver BSD only/GPL only later on? Pure BSD code (w/o advertising clause) can have additional restrictions (GPL or some proprietary licensing terms) added later on by a vendor, so why can't BSD/GPL code be relicensed the same way? If it's polite to relicense the code is a completely different question. On the other hand, if Matthew makes major changes and wants those to become GPL, that's up to him. /Christer Off topic: I've been told that some Irish radio station has had a competition where you were supposed to send in photos of people holding an egg. Can somebody tell me what radio station is that and where I can find the pictures?