Am Montag, den 15.09.2008, 00:33 +0200 schrieb Markus Rechberger: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Markus Rechberger wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> barry bouwsma wrote: > >>>> > >>>> --- On Sun, 9/14/08, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> is that the BSD folks can't port the GPL license into BSD because it's > >>>>> not compatible. > >>>> > >>>> I don't want to see any religious war here (trimmed to dvb > >>>> list), but... > >>>> > >>>> There is GPL code distributed as part of *BSD sources, > >>>> as you can see by reading the licensing in, for example, > >>>> $ ls /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/FreeBSD.cvs/src/sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/ > >>>> Attic emu10k1-alsa.h,v maestro3_reg.h,v p17v-alsa.h,v > >>>> csaimg.h,v maestro3_dsp.h,v p16v-alsa.h,v > >>> > >>> Interesting. > >>> > >>>> > >>>>> I owe it to myself to spend somehime reading the BSD licencing. Maybe > >>>>> the GPL is compatible with BSD. > >>>> > >>>> It all depends on the intended use -- whether for optional > >>>> kernel components as above. In the distributions, though, > >>>> it's kept separated. > >>>> > >>>> It's also possible to dual-licence source, and I see a good > >>>> number of such files in NetBSD under, as an example, > >>>> /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/NetBSD.cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/ > >>> > >>> I'm be quite happy to grant a second license on my work the the BSD > >>> guys, as the copyright owner I can do that. The legal stuff gets messy > >>> quickly and I don't claim to understand all of it. > >>> > >> > >> Great move Steven! Can we move the TDA10048 code over, maybe adding > >> a note that it's dual licensed would be nice? > > > > In principle yes. > > > > I'd like to see an example of dual license just to make sure it has no nasty > > side effects. > > > > Can you point me at one of your dual-license drivers so I can review the > > wording? > > > > videodev2.h is also dual licensed. > That was to what I tried to point to. Cheers, Hermann _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
