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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: via agp patches
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From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
Date: 31 May 2008 11:48:53 -0500
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>>>>> "AC" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

AC> Do we think the above is GPL compatible, do VIA think so, do VIA
AC> care to say in writing they consider it is if there are questions?

It seems to me that's just an MIT variant, identical to what Fedora
calls the "Modern Style with sublicense"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT which is GPL compatible
according to the FSF at least (although the FSF prefers that it not be
called "the MIT license" for various reasons).

 - J<