From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:11:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e890708281311y630b85fcjb132bd065478d760@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070828171155.GC29343@infradead.org>
On 8/28/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:00:50PM -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > ath5k, license is GPLv2
> >
> > The files are available only under GPLv2 since now.
>
> Is this really a good idea? Most of the reverse-engineering was
> done by the OpenBSD folks, and it would certainly be helpful to
> work together with them on new hardware revisions, etc..
Technically the best we can do is to leave the license as dual
licensed, but keep in that technically that means nothing and is just
for show, the GPL is what would apply as its derivative work and is
the most restrictive license. This applies to any other driver in the
kernel right now with a dual license tag.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-28 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2713029743177393055@pripojeni.net>
2007-08-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/5] Net: ath5k, switch to ioread/iowrite Jiri Slaby
2007-08-28 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/5] Net: ath5k, use int as retval Jiri Slaby
2007-08-30 12:40 ` John W. Linville
2007-09-01 20:08 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-09-02 15:55 ` Nick Kossifidis
2007-08-28 16:00 ` [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2 Jiri Slaby
2007-08-28 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-28 20:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2007-08-29 17:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-29 18:01 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-29 18:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-29 19:33 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-29 19:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-30 8:26 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-30 8:32 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-29 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-30 13:45 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-30 13:02 ` David Newall
2007-08-29 9:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-29 10:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-08-29 13:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-08-30 11:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-28 16:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] Net: ath5k, kconfig changes Jiri Slaby
2007-08-28 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-30 1:38 ` Nick Kossifidis
2007-08-30 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-30 12:36 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-30 22:18 ` Nick Kossifidis
2007-09-01 5:58 ` Nick Kossifidis
2007-08-31 11:58 ` Dan Williams
2007-08-31 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-31 14:32 ` Dan Williams
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