From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paulus@samba.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix licensing problems in if_ppp.h
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:41:47 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120304.204147.652134096643702602.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120304225336.GA10646@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:53:37 +1100
> This series of 3 patches is primarily aimed at removing the problem
> that the license on include/linux/if_ppp.h is the old BSD-style license
> with advertising clause. However, in fact virtually none of that file
> comes from the original PPP code released by CMU. This series solves
> the problem by moving the code that I originally wrote to a new header
> file with my copyright on it.
>
> While we're at it, I also change the license on some files where I had
> put an ANU copyright notice originally to have my copyright instead.
> I have an acknowledgement in writing from September 2002 from ANU that
> they do not claim any copyright in this code.
All applied, thanks Paul.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 22:53 Paul Mackerras
2012-03-04 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] ppp: Change copyright notices from ANU to me Paul Mackerras
2012-03-04 22:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.h Paul Mackerras
2012-03-04 22:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> Paul Mackerras
2012-03-05 1:41 ` David Miller [this message]
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