Hi Greg: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Greg KH <gre...@suse.de> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:14:59PM -0700, Feng Kan wrote: >> Hi Greg: >> >> We will change to a BSD 3 clause license header. Our legal counsel is >> talking to Synopsis to make this change. > > Why BSD? You do realize what that means when combined within the body > of the kernel, right? >
FKAN: We will shoot for a dual BSD/GPL license such as the one in the HP Hil driver. > Are you going to be expecting others to contribute back to the code > under this license, or will you accept the fact that future > contributions from the community will cause the license to change? > >> We will resubmit once this is in place. Please let me know if you have >> any additional concerns. > > My main concern is that you, and everyone else involved in the driver, > never considered the license of the code in the first place and expected > the kernel community to accept it as-is, placing the problem on us. FKAN: Please don't think this is the case, we gone through this exercise with Denx. We had legal looking into the header before submission to them and the kernel. > > What will be done in the future to prevent this from happening again? FKAN: agreed, once bitten .... :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- Feng Kan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev