public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Misshielle Wong <mwl@bajoo.net>
Subject: Re: License question
Date: 19 Jan 2004 07:15:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq04qus878q.fsf@wildopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040119122403.pochini@shiny.it>

>>>>> "Giuliano" == Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it> writes:

Giuliano> These are in fact the points I wished your opinion about...
Giuliano> Actually these are requirements (like others said), not use
Giuliano> restrictions. btw, IANAL and IP rights are a minefield.
Giuliano> Since their code is C++ I already rewote everything in C,
Giuliano> but it also contains the binary firmwares which I can't
Giuliano> rewrite. That's why I asked you about the license.  It's
Giuliano> likely Echoaudio will change the license in the next release
Giuliano> to a dual GPL/custom license, so this will be no more an
Giuliano> issue.

That sounds great, getting rid of the C++ components is a major step
;-)

Even if the firmware license doesn't change, you still have the option
to use the hotplug firmware loader in 2.6.

Cheers,
Jes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-17 18:57 License question Giuliano Pochini
2004-01-17 19:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-18  9:27   ` Sergey Vlasov
2004-01-17 19:41 ` Misshielle Wong
2004-01-17 22:06   ` David Schwartz
2004-01-18 17:23     ` Misshielle Wong
2004-01-19  8:14       ` Jes Sorensen
2004-01-19 16:00         ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-01-19 17:03         ` Misshielle Wong
2004-01-19 11:24     ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-01-19 11:31       ` David Schwartz
2004-01-20  9:30         ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-01-20 17:19           ` David Schwartz
2004-01-19 12:15       ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2004-01-18 11:07 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
     [not found] <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEEEIJKAA.davids@webmaster.com>
2004-01-18 21:54 ` Misshielle Wong
     [not found] <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKKEFLJKAA.davids@webmaster.com>
2004-01-19  0:25 ` Misshielle Wong
     [not found] <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKAEGJJKAA.davids@webmaster.com>
2004-01-19  4:17 ` Misshielle Wong
2004-01-19 10:05   ` David Schwartz
2004-01-22  7:37     ` David Meybohm

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=yq04qus878q.fsf@wildopensource.com \
    --to=jes@wildopensource.com \
    --cc=davids@webmaster.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mwl@bajoo.net \
    --cc=pochini@shiny.it \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox