Re: [PATCH] Add max6902 RTC support

[Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net>]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:55:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> >         (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
> >         have the right to submit it under the open source license
> >         indicated in the file; or
> >         
> >         (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the
> >         best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open
> >         source license and I have the right under that license to submit
> >         that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in
> >         part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
> >         permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in
> >         the file; or
> 
> Yes, I think that would work, if Rafael is prepared to make that assertion.
> 
> If so, please send along a few words describing where the Compulab code
> came from and some substantiation of your belief that it was appropriately
> licensed.  (It probably had some license words at the top of the file..)
The compulab code comes from the kernel patch the produce for their
cn-x255 board. (inside a zip file on the 
http://www.compulab.co.il/x255/html/x255-developer.htm)

The original file (drivers/char/max6902.c) was GPL, which is of course
an appropriate licence:

/*
 * max6902.c
 *
 * Driver for MAX6902 RTC
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Compulab Ltd.
 *
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 *
 */

For reference, you can get the original file here:
http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/max6902.c

Regards,
Raphael Assenat