From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@actcom.co.il>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: change ppp_deflate.o module license string [was: ppp_deflate.o taints the kernel?]
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:49:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020524214935.B18922@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17BGhc-0006V7-00@the-village.bc.nu> <29311.1022254271@redhat.com>
Marcelo,
Please apply trivial patch to ppp_deflate.o to change module license
to dual BSD/GPL, like 2.5, in order to avoid needlessly tainting the
kernel.
diff -ur linux-2.4.19-pre8-vanilla/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c linux-2.4.19-pre8/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c
--- linux-2.4.19-pre8-vanilla/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c Sun Sep 30 21:26:07 2001
+++ linux-2.4.19-pre8/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c Fri May 24 21:43:44 2002
@@ -657,4 +657,4 @@
module_init(deflate_init);
module_exit(deflate_cleanup);
-MODULE_LICENSE("BSD without advertisement clause");
+MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:31:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > FAQ item - BSD license doesnt guarantee we have source. If its GPL
> > compatible someone should slap a GPL header on our copy and be done
> > with it
>
> It's already marked 'Dual BSD/GPL' in your tree and in 2.5, I believe.
> I fixed it when I did the zlib changes.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-24 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-23 16:35 ppp_deflate.o taints the kernel? Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-05-24 15:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 15:31 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-24 18:49 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
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