From: "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q]Can a file be dual licensed in upstream kernel?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:46:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bc632150804290216j434e51fel255e7f76b0a50b0b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429095015.2e05f470@core>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:07:37 +0530
>
> "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A small query.
> > Can a module/file be Dual licensed(i.e BSD/GPLv2) in the upstream
> > Linux kernel sources?
>
> The copy you submit to the kernel needs to be GPL. How you choose to
> licence it in addition is your business (assuming it is all your own
> work). Various drivers in the kernel (eg much of infiniband and ACPI) are
> issued by their authors with multiple licences for different projects.
Thank you for kind explanation, Alan.
That helped a lot.
Regards,
--Pradeep
>
> Alan
>
--
Pradeep Singh Rautela
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 5:37 pradeep singh rautela
2008-04-29 5:53 ` Greg KH
2008-04-29 6:10 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-04-29 6:26 ` Hans J. Koch
2008-04-29 6:31 ` pradeep singh rautela
2008-05-01 14:59 ` David Schwartz
2008-05-14 15:28 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-14 23:36 ` David Schwartz
2008-05-15 18:23 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-29 6:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 8:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 9:16 ` pradeep singh rautela [this message]
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