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From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sym2 2.1.18k
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:33:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38ybdlur2.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913194803.GV642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:48:03 +0100")

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:

> 2.1.18k:
>  - Relicence from dual BSD/GPL to pure GPL

Urgh. There was a time when the driver was shared among deveral OSs,
among them FreeBSD. The BSD world ain't gonna like this for practical
reasons, the consequence is that they'll either stop merging patches
from Linux or remove the sym driver from their GENERIC kernels if they
want your patches.

Of course, he who writes the code gets to determine the license, hence
no plea to revert this change, but I'd like to know why this change has
been made.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 19:48 sym2 2.1.18k Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-13 21:33 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2004-09-13 22:16   ` Kenneth D. Merry
2004-09-14  0:34   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-14  1:27     ` Matthias Andree

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