On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:38:49PM +0200, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: > 2010/10/14 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>: > > I don't think that bitfields are copyrightable :) > > What about rest of the code? brcm80211 seems to support even newer > devices we don't even try to support in b43 yet. > > Can I treat code as pure-GPL and do not care about that > maybe-not-GPL-compatible statement in header? IANAL, but I think you should include the copyright statment with a comment like "some portions covered by the following" at the top of the files including such code. Beyond that, I think you are fine including it under GPL terms (which are merely more restrictive, neither less restrictive nor incompatible). John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
