From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [Q]Can a file be dual licensed in upstream kernel?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:33:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260804282333hefda3e1p485391d65a58fa21@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bc632150804282237o1aa04e28t93f46874cd14721f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:37 AM, pradeep singh rautela
<rautelap@gmail.com> wrote:
> A small query.
> Can a module/file be Dual licensed(i.e BSD/GPLv2) in the upstream
> Linux kernel sources?
> I think it is GPLv2 only.
>
> So does this means any dual licensed files should be aptly GPLv2 only?
There are already source files in the Linux kernel that are dual
licensed. See e.g. drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c. Note: not all
licenses are compatible. License compatibility is indeed not a topic
for the LKML mailing list.
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 6:33 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 [this message]
2008-04-29 8:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 9:16 ` pradeep singh rautela
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