On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 06:24 -0700, Peter and Jesse wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-15-04 at 20:53 +0800, Christophe Jarry wrote: > > > Luis Alberto Guzmán García 写道: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I found some BSD code, and the license is not GPL, indeed it has no > > > > license. > > > > drivers/net/bsd_comp.c > > > > But recalls the use of no GPL and the terms to redistribute, > > > > it can be seen in > > > > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--net--bsd-comp-c > > > > > > > > is a little long so i didn't copy it here. > > > > How can we see this? Free? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > This seems to be the Modified BSD license as described at > > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. If it is, it's free. > > > > > > I'm not sure so could someone recheck? > > > > No, this is the original BSD license. See the clause about advertising, > > which makes it incompatible with the GPL, but still free. So we should > > be fine. > > Peter > > Not being to great with licencing i was wondering - > how can something be linked with linux (which i assume this driver is) > and be GPL incompatible? > kk
It's can't be done legally. > > -- > Karl Goetz, > Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor > http://www.kgoetz.id.au > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > >
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