From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Andree Subject: Re: sym2 2.1.18k Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:33:05 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20040913194803.GV642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:52878 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268981AbUIMVdI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:33:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040913194803.GV642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:48:03 +0100") List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox 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)