Hi Greg:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:14:59PM -0700, Feng Kan wrote:
>> Hi Greg:
>>
>> We will change to a BSD 3 clause license header. Our legal counsel is
>> talking to Synopsis to make this change.
>
> Why BSD? You do realize what that means when combined within the body
> of the kernel, right?
>
FKAN: We will shoot for a dual BSD/GPL license such as the one in the HP
Hil driver.
> Are you going to be expecting others to contribute back to the code
> under this license, or will you accept the fact that future
> contributions from the community will cause the license to change?
>
>> We will resubmit once this is in place. Please let me know if you have
>> any additional concerns.
>
> My main concern is that you, and everyone else involved in the driver,
> never considered the license of the code in the first place and expected
> the kernel community to accept it as-is, placing the problem on us.
FKAN: Please don't think this is the case, we gone through this exercise
with Denx. We had legal looking into the header before submission
to them and the kernel.
>
> What will be done in the future to prevent this from happening again?
FKAN: agreed, once bitten .... :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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Feng Kan
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