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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
	kyle@mcmartin.ca, matthew@wil.cx, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	bdale@hp.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:10:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080811001015.GC14163@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080810141159.GA13105@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:11:59PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:55:11PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
...
> > Someone from HP needs to ACK this patch since I believe HP funded the code
> > changes made during the parisc-linux port. This should be a no-brainer
> > and I expect Bdale Garbee can quickly take care of this.
> 
> Either the file is available since the beginning under the terms of the 
> GPLv2 (or a compatible license that can be reduced to GPLv2) or it's 
> addition to the kernel was a huge mistake.

As a former HP employee who was one of the several parisc-linux developers,
I'm certain the intent was to release this as GPL. That's why I said
"this should be a no-brainer".

However, it's still HP's (and not my) right to assert that.

thanks,
grant

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 21:11 Adrian Bunk
2008-08-10  0:55 ` Grant Grundler
2008-08-10  1:00   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-10 13:41     ` Bdale Garbee
2008-08-10 15:14       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-11  0:05         ` Grant Grundler
2008-08-11 14:15         ` Bdale Garbee
2008-08-10 14:11   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11  0:10     ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2008-08-11 10:46       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 14:56         ` John David Anglin
2008-08-11 15:51           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 16:56             ` John David Anglin
2008-08-11 18:43               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-11 17:11           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-15 21:44           ` Grant Grundler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-15 16:13 Adrian Bunk

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