From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262699AbUKXPmB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:42:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262724AbUKXPjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:39:39 -0500 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:52148 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262765AbUKXPjL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:39:11 -0500 Message-ID: <41A49BB0.60002@grupopie.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:33:20 +0000 From: Paulo Marques Organization: Grupo PIE User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Fedin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Licensing question References: <20041124140433.1d9d1022.sonic_amiga@rambler.ru> In-Reply-To: <20041124140433.1d9d1022.sonic_amiga@rambler.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.28.0.18; VDF: 6.28.0.88; host: bipbip) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! > I'm a member of AROS team (http://www.aros.org) and i'd like to ask for a permission to use parts of Linux source code (small parts) in developing this system. It is licensed under APL (http://www.aros.org/license.html) so i need a permission. I don't know where to ask for it so i ask here. > Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes. > From your license page, I can see that the license is based on the MPL (Mozilla public license). If you check: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html the MPL is listed as a GPL incompatible license. This means that either the APL solves the issues of the MPL so that it is GPL compatible, or you have to ask the original authors permission to use their code (which is usually complicated because there are usually a lot of them...) -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)