> Aren't patches made against the kernel GPL'd if the author doesn't > explicitly grant them more liberal BSD license in addition? That would be the normal assumption. > The problem then comes in taking the patches that were only made > available against GPL code and reshipping them under the BSD license > without the author explicitly agreeing to this. > > What if a patch spans both code that is pure GPL and code imported > from BSD, how do you license it? See the acpi codebase for a worked example. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html