From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Johnston <dj@deadhat.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, richard.weinberger@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:34:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D70880C.4000209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7078C8.8050009@deadhat.com>
On 03/03/2011 09:29 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> Yes I am willing to allow you to retain it.
> I guess, to be all legalese..
> I herein permit you to use any 802.11 related C code taken from the
> www.deadhat.com website, in the linux kernel, and to publish it under
> the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
>
> Yes I've emailed ralink and VIA. I hope they're nice people.
First of all, thank you (both for the code and for being reasonable.)
It sounds like this might simply have been an honest misreading.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 22:49 Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel? dj
2011-03-01 23:30 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-03-01 23:54 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-02 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-03 6:04 ` Greg KH
2011-03-04 5:29 ` David Johnston
2011-03-04 6:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-03-04 22:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-03-04 22:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <56a24cfecea63a4752f441056da9c813.squirrel@deadhat.com>
2011-03-03 4:03 ` Greg KH
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