On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 07:03:10PM +0000, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > > 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. because the driver as a whole is dual BSD/GPL. It's not easy to say "I'm sending this patch, but whatever changes I make are GPL-only, everything else is Dual BSD/GPL" :-) -- balbi
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