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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: hayeswang@realtek.com, oliver@neukum.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	nic_swsd@realtek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net/usb: new driver for RTL8152
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 13:32:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502.133215.2146231670932106380.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130502141239.GC24348@kroah.com>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 07:12:39 -0700

> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:48:07AM +0800, Hayes Wang wrote:
>> +#define PATENTS		"This product is covered by one or more of the " \
>> +			"following patents:\n" \
>> +			"\t\tUS6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.\n"
> 
> Interesting, you are aware of the issues involved with patents and GPLv2
> code, right?  Do you have a pointer to the GPLv2 patent release that is
> now required, or does your company now release all of the needed rights
> for these patents to be able to be used by everyone?

There is no way I'm applying a patch that adds notices like this to the
kernel log.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-26  8:45 [PATCH net-next] net/usb: new driver for RTL8152 Hayes Wang
2013-04-26 11:56 ` Oliver Neukum
     [not found] ` <201305020622.r426MYGv032465@rtits1.realtek.com>
2013-05-02  7:46   ` hayeswang
2013-05-02  9:02     ` Oliver Neukum
2013-05-02 19:48 ` [PATCH v2 " Hayes Wang
2013-05-02 14:12   ` Greg KH
2013-05-02 17:32     ` David Miller [this message]
2013-05-03  2:01 ` [PATCH v3 " Hayes Wang
2013-05-03  2:33   ` Greg KH
2013-05-03  3:11     ` hayeswang
2013-05-03  3:23       ` 'Greg KH'
2013-05-03  4:00         ` David Miller
2013-05-06 20:17   ` David Miller

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