> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 12:49 AM > > 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 Hi Sebastian, Can you explain what you mean by your second point? I don't understand why contributions from a third party would be available under the BSD license. -- Paul -- 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
