From: Dan McDonald <dan@vkl.ath.cx>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 8/12] LED: Add LED device support for ixp4xx devices]
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:00:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602052255110.10566@dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139202455.3131.56.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>");
>>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IXP4XX GPIO LED driver");
>>> +MODULE_LICENSE("MIT");
>>
>> MIT license is unusual. There's one other file in the kernel which uses it
>> and that's down in MTD where nobody dares look.
>>
>> I don't know whether MIT is GPL-compatible-for-kernel-purposes or not. Help.
>
> would be really nice if the author would at least dual license it under
> the GPL as well (and thus also granting the patent rights if any)
It would be really nice, but that doesn't make the rights to any patents
granted unless 'GPLv2 or any later version' is explicitly specified. The
default GPL license is v2 and only v2. There was a bug thread about this
on LKML earlier.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1139154997.14624.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-02-06 3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 3:41 ` Felipe W Damasio
2006-02-06 4:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-06 5:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 7:00 ` Dan McDonald [this message]
2006-02-06 13:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 7:01 ` John Bowler
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