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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Licensing on lib/bsearch.c?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:03:04 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911191903.04915.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)

Hi Tim, Andre,

   I note that the license header on lib/bsearch.c is GPLv2.  I wanted to
steal it for SAMBA, which is GPLv3.  This is one reason all my kernel code is
v2 or later.

If you don't have strong objections, could you send something like the
following so I don't have to reimplement and re-test?

Thanks,
Rusty.

Subject: bsearch: extend license to GPL 2+

Rusty asked nicely.

diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
--- a/lib/bsearch.c
+++ b/lib/bsearch.c
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19  8:33 Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-11-19 15:39 ` Licensing on lib/bsearch.c? André Goddard Rosa
2009-11-21 21:15 ` Tim Abbott

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