From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:32:05 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: akuster@mvista.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: GPL inconsistency in arch/ppc/ocp/xlinx/ Message-ID: <20030612203205.GA23017@lst.de> References: <20030524201213.GA8256@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030524201213.GA8256@lst.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/