Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:16 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > >>Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@xxxxxxxxxx> > > >>+++ b/Documentation/scsi/LICENSE.qla2xxx >>@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ >>+Copyright (c) 2003-2005 QLogic Corporation >>+QLogic Linux Fibre Channel HBA Driver >>+ >>+This program includes a device driver for Linux 2.6 that may be >>+distributed with QLogic hardware specific firmware binary file. >>+You may modify and redistribute the device driver code under the >>+GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software >>+Foundation (version 2 or a later version) and/or under the >>+following terms, as applicable: >>+ >>+ 1. Redistribution of source code must retain the above >>+ copyright notice, this list of conditions and the >>+ following disclaimer. >>+ >>+ 2. Redistribution 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. >>+ >>+ 3. The name of QLogic Corporation may not be used to >>+ endorse or promote products derived from this software >>+ without specific prior written permission. >>+ > > > > as one of the people who made significant changes to the qlogic driver I > object to this license change, especially because it was a one sided > change without consultation beforehand. Arjan, Apart from not being consulted beforehand, what precisely is objectionable in the above? > James: please do not apply this. > > Andrew: you can't do this. You just CANNOT change the license of code > you don't own fully without consent of ALL contributors. Often wondered about that. Someone sends me a bug fix, I accept it, credit them and then at some later stage want to broaden the license on that code from GPL to BSD (say). Do I need the bug fixer's permission? Doug Gilbert - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
