On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this >> >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's >> >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for >> >> > >> >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL, >> >> >> >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with >> >> permissive licensed files. >> > >> > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so >> > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL. >> >> Oh? > > Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so. > > /* > Â* Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc. > Â* > Â* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software > for any > Â* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > above > Â* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. > Â* > > ...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I > have it. Got it, OK let me clarify that for you then. Yes. That is what makes it GPL-Compatible. We droped the Dual GPL/BSD practice and picked up the ISC license to help OpenBSD when we took Reyk's HAL from OpenBSD. The ISC license is just a simpler BSD license due the Berne Convention which makes one of the clauses implicit (respecting copyright between countries). Its just a very simple permissive license. Luis -- 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
