On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:30:49PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, dave wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:24:02 +1300
> >From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Subject: help new driver
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> >I am writing a driver and need to now what copyright GPL stuff 
> >I need to put in my source files 

What driver are you speaking about ? 

> The existing drivers are under an MIT/X11 style license, which
> allows their source code to be shared with pretty much anything,
> including GPL licensed code.  Making your driver MIT/X11
> licensed, or dual licensing it as MIT/X11 and GPL, would allows
> other drivers to be able to benefit from sharing code with your
> driver as well.  Of course it is totally up to you what license 
> you would prefer to use.

Yeah, i would recomend a MIT/X11 & GPL dual licence, that would be nice,
so the code could later be shared by the linux kernel, among others.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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