Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie

Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-20T08:27:10Z

On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote:
> Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you
> expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If
> so, that seems weired to me.
>
> Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in
> the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that
> is applicable.
>
> ==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c =======================
> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> =========================================================================
> I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary
> either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this
> term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with
> the product AFAIK.

Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and
I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement
from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the
subject.

Arnd