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From: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
To: "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: license of string_helpers module
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:55:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365699339.1927.45.camel@dabdike> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365698594.28859.1.camel@smile>

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:43 +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> Hello, James.
> 
> Could you please share what is the License applied to the
> lib/string_helpers.c module which you wrote on 2008?

Um, it's in the kernel, so it follows the licence of the COPYING file,
so GPLv2 only.

> Shall we update top of the file to be clear on it in future?

There's no need to waste space with individual licences, that's why we
have a COPYING file.

James


      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-11 16:43 license of string_helpers module Shevchenko, Andriy
2013-04-11 16:55 ` James Bottomley [this message]

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