RE: [Fwd: [PATCH 8/12] LED: Add LED device support for ixp4xx devices]

[John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>]

From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@osdl.org]
>MIT license is unusual.  There's one other file in the kernel which uses it
>and that's down in MTD where nobody dares look.

Well, I look at the MTD code a lot... That's why I used it (i.e. that was the
existence proof I found that it's fine ;-)

>I don't know whether MIT is GPL-compatible-for-kernel-purposes or not.  Help.

Nothing it that license precludes the code being redistributed under the
GPL.  (It is a verbatim copy of
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).

>MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");

Is fine with me, indeed, given the license text, I don't believe I retain
any rights to *prevent* such a change (and it was certainly not my intent
to prevent redistribution under a more restrictive license).  Using 'MIT'
or substituting some more specific tag must be fine for the same reason
(it's a name of a license, not a license itself).

John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>