Re: [PATCH 4/12] qla2xxx: Update license.

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:37:07AM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> > Here's the updated license we'd like to propose.  Please note the
> > verbiage regarding the questionable relicensing of the driver codes
> > has been removed.
> 
> please don't hard-code qlogic in the license, you're not the only
> copytight holder and adding everyone gets to long.  The only license
> I'd be willing to dual-license my code under is the extremly simple
> mit-style license used by the openbsd project:
> 
>  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> 
> I'll also send you a list of the files that have singnificant contributions
> from me so you can add me to the copyright lines.I though that wasn't
> nessecary, but who knows what odd ideas legal departments will come up
> with next.

Sorry, but QLogic is not requesting that the driver codes be
dual-licensed.  The license explcitely states the codes are under the
GPL and the firmware blobs are under the BSD style license.

Where's the disconnect?

-- 
Andrew Vasquez
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