From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Guillaume Boissiere <boissiere@adiglobal.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:42:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020731234252.GA14930@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1028161904.13048.20.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:31:44AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 21:34, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Care to comment on why it is not GPL compatible? Given that they are
> > interested in merging their code into the standard kernel ASAP, I know
> > that they'd be interested in correcting any incompatibilities.
>
> The 3 clause BSD though very much a completely free/open license has
> requirements conflicting with the GPL
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/bsd.html
The "original BSD license" listed on that page actually has 4 numbered
clauses, number 3 (the "advertising clause") being the conflicting one.
The "modified BSD license", which they link to on the same page, has 3
clauses and *is* GPL compatible. As far as I can tell, the license we are
using at CITI is nearly word-for-word the "modified BSD license", and is
GPL compatible.
--Bruce Fields
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-19 4:47 [2.6] The List, pass #2 Guillaume Boissiere
2002-07-19 5:08 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-07-19 12:41 ` mbs
2002-07-19 13:16 ` jlnance
2002-07-20 7:28 ` Bruce Harada
2002-07-28 10:47 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-07-31 17:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-31 17:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 18:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-31 20:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-31 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-01 0:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-31 23:42 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2002-08-01 9:33 ` David Schwartz
2002-08-01 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-01 15:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2002-07-31 22:04 ` David Lang
2002-08-01 9:33 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-03 3:40 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-08 9:02 ` Helge Hafting
2002-08-13 3:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-13 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-01 0:34 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-01 1:56 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-01 2:30 ` Roland Dreier
2002-08-01 3:25 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-01 4:05 ` Roland Dreier
2002-08-01 5:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 6:10 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-08-05 7:29 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-01 18:45 ` Ben Greear
2002-08-01 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 2:30 ` Alan Cox
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2002-08-07 17:11 Matt_Domsch
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