On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 12:24:48AM -0700, Shiro Itou 伊東 wrote: > Hi All, > > > We make some product specific change to "pciehp" and want to give > modified "pciehp" with our product to customer. I read GPL and I see > that we have to add change log in license header. Who is "we"? And secondly, for all legal questions, please consult a lawyer for your company, they are the best to answer these questions, not random developers on a public mailing list. And no, the GPL does not say you have to add a changelog to the license header. > Should we or can we change module author to our company name? Now I > see many authors, Greg, IBM, Intel etc. in pciehp code. Or we have to > add our company with other names? No, no need to change the author, just know about the copyrights of the other companies and authors and deal with it properly as per copyright law. > Can we change driver version? What did you change? Why not just post your change as a patch and get it accepted upstream properly for everyone to then use? Please read the kernel files, Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/development-model/ for how kernel development works. > Is code has to be opensource? Yes of course, you can not change the license of the file, or the Linux kernel, why would you think otherwise? > If yes, then where to keep the source code? Is our company website ok > or public source website? That is up to you. > I tried to get information other place about GPL but not get wanted > information. Where did you look, there is lots of public information out there. But again, you should always ask lawyers about legal things, not programmers. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
