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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: akuster@mvista.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: GPL inconsistency in arch/ppc/ocp/xlinx/
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:32:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030612203205.GA23017@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030524201213.GA8256@lst.de>


On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:12:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Armin,
>
> you seem to have added the the directory in the topic to the LinuxPPC
> trees.  Unfortunately they have a license consitency that basically
> makes them illegal to distribute, they claim to be under GPL but have
> the following notice:
>
> *     Xilinx products are not intended for use in life support appliances,
> *     devices, or systems. Use in such applications are expressly prohibited.
>
> Could you please contact Xilinc to clarify the license and/or remove
> those files from the tree?  Thanks.

As there hasn't been any answer yet I think these files should be
remove to ensure the linuxppc tree is legally distributable.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-24 20:12 GPL inconsistency in arch/ppc/ocp/xlinx/ Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-25 12:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-12 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-06-12 20:44   ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-13  7:58     ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-06-15 17:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-12 20:45   ` Matt Porter
2003-06-15 17:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-16  0:07       ` Tom Rini
2003-06-12 20:55   ` Tom Rini
2003-06-15 17:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-16  0:04       ` Tom Rini
2003-06-17  4:50     ` Peter Ryser

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