From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaos@ocs.com.au
Subject: Re: Dual BSD/GPL [ was: Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated]
Date: 22 Jul 2002 13:25:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027340745.31782.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020723025639.1baf8c1b.arodland@noln.com>
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 07:56, Andrew Rodland wrote:
>
> * According to Alan Cox, a license of "BSD without advertisement
> clause" is not a suitable free software license. This license type
> allows binary only modules without source code. Any modules in the
> kernel tarball with this license should really be "Dual BSD/GPL".
The problem with just the BSD tag is that means it might be binary only
so undebuggable. If its dual BSD/GPL then at the least the user can
demand their GPL rights and get the source to debug it
I think all these are now sorted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-04 21:22 oops with 2.4.18 and preempt patch, on SMP + ext3 machine Yann Dirson
2002-07-18 21:02 ` Generic modules documentation is outdated Yann Dirson
2002-07-18 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 23:17 ` Yann Dirson
2002-07-18 23:25 ` Yann Dirson
2002-07-18 23:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-19 8:12 ` Stelian Pop
2002-07-23 6:56 ` Dual BSD/GPL [ was: Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated] Andrew Rodland
2002-07-22 12:25 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-19 8:24 ` Generic modules documentation is outdated Stelian Pop
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