On 07/01/2013 09:18 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > This is a Linux-only driver which makes use > of GPL-only symbols. It makes no sense to > maintain Dual BSD/GPL licensing for this driver. > > Considering that the amount of work to use this > driver in any different operating system would likely > be as large as developing the driver from scratch and > considering that we depend on GPL-only symbols, we > will switch over to a GPL v2-only license. > > Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Anton Tikhomirov <av.tikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> I Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> for two reasons: - the first one you already mentioned: the amount of linux kernel knowledge in order to recycle the driver - the fact that any code contributed by a third party will be also available under BSD even the linux kernel is GPLv2 I am not asking you to redo the patch but > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > + * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > */ there is a copy in the root directory of the kernel so no need fire up the browser :) Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
