On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote: > Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you > expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If > so, that seems weired to me. > > Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in > the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that > is applicable. > > ==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c ======================= > * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > ========================================================================= > I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary > either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this > term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with > the product AFAIK. Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the subject. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
