From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Bonds, Deanna" <Deanna_Bonds@adaptec.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:24:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC45A2C.1F7754B1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4C5F64C4EBBD51198AD009027D61DB31C8139@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>
"Bonds, Deanna" wrote:
>
> >
> > The kernel dpt_i2o is GPL. Its in part built from GPL'd code
> > I wrote but
> > mostly from what I assume was originally a cross platform
> > dpt source set.
> >
> > Alan
>
> The main dpt_i2o files are GPL. There are some header files that are used
> for the ioctl interface that are used across all platforms and management
> utilities. They were originally released under BDS license for the most
> flexibility. But we have no problems in re-releasing them under GPL as long
> as we have the 'copy-back' right and can continue to use them in our other
> products. All we would be concerned with is not having to GPL all the
> software that uses those headers (which is pretty much everything related to
> the i2o raid cards on every OS).
Then dual-licensing it with BSD and GPL sounds the way to go; quite a
few drivers
do that, and I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 14:06 Tainted Modules Help Notices Bonds, Deanna
2001-10-10 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2001-10-10 8:06 Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 8:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 8:24 ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 13:50 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 13:59 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 14:01 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 18:18 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 20:06 ` Concerned Programmer
2001-10-10 20:28 ` Morgan Collins [Ax0n]
2001-10-10 21:28 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 22:03 ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-10-11 7:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-10 23:02 ` Juan Quintela
2001-10-10 23:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-10 22:29 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-11 8:50 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-10-11 9:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11 9:35 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-11 9:41 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
2001-10-11 9:48 ` Syed Mohammad Talha
2001-10-11 10:09 ` Concerned Programmer
2001-10-11 10:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-11 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2001-10-11 23:40 ` John Alvord
2001-10-12 1:12 ` David Schwartz
2001-10-12 1:32 ` Robert Love
2001-10-11 12:10 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-10 14:13 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-10 14:18 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 13:10 ` Alan Cox
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