> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > Date: 2007-08-31 16:18:37 > > Attached patch amends the ath5k license as per review from SFLC with > the following changes: > > * Makes sure that Reyk's copyright and license notice appears > correctly in each file that was derived from his work. > > * Makes sure that Jiri's changes were released under a permissive, > modified-BSD license, as he indicated that was his preference. Thanks Jiri, for respecting the wishes of the origional author of this code. > * Makes sure that Nick's changes were released under > GPLv2-or-later, as he indicated that was his preference. No kudo's to Nick here. I assume you realize that by doing this you're effectively saying to the *BSD developers something "Thank you for all the work you've done on this driver, but you can't have any of my changes anymore". I think it's rather unlikely that that'll go down well, and I doubt they'll be eager to work with you in the future. To all other (potential) Linux wirless driver devlopers I'd like to say that there is a long standing tradition which says that if you make improvements to code that carries a certain license, you make those improvements available under that same license. The GPL makes this part of the licensing conditions, whereas the BSD-like licenses (such as the ISC license used in the origional ath5k driver) don't. But that doesn't mean that the people in the "BSD camp" don't hold that same viewpoint. So I really hope that if you ever submit a patch for the ath5k driver, you make it available under the conditions of the ISC license as well as the GPL license. The best way to do this, is probably by explicitly stating this when you send a patch to the linux-wirless or linux-kernel mailing list. Thanks, Mark Kettenis - 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
