From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: bkuhn@ebb.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
Charles Marker <Charles.Marker@atheros.com>,
Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com>,
Kevin Hayes <kevin@atheros.com>,
Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@atheros.com>,
Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@atheros.com>,
Doug Dahlby <Doug.Dahlby@atheros.com>,
Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101130200019.GA28735@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinMyAeVJJc7Lc-vt_Ywr+vcSf-GAiQwggTGbqh8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this
> >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's
> >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for
> >> >
> >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL,
> >>
> >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with
> >> permissive licensed files.
> >
> > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so
> > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL.
>
> Oh?
Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so.
/*
* Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software
for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
above
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
*
...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I
have it.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-30 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-18 8:46 Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 11:11 ` Theodore Tso
2010-11-18 16:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 13:02 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-21 17:29 ` Greg KH
2010-11-21 19:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-21 21:44 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-21 21:47 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-11-21 21:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-22 1:00 ` Greg KH
2010-11-21 23:35 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-21 21:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-03 14:13 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-21 21:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 22:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 11:34 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 16:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 19:26 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-30 19:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 19:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 20:00 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-11-30 20:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 20:13 ` david
2010-12-01 16:02 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2010-11-18 16:45 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-18 17:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-21 0:32 ` Adrian Chadd
2010-11-21 5:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-21 7:11 ` Adrian Chadd
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