I assume someone started cc'ing me on this thread to get my opinion as a non-lawyer GPL geek. david@xxxxxxx wrote: > However, there are quite a few files in the kernel that are BSD > licensed, when combined with other GPL code, the only way you can > re-distribute the result is under the GPL, so it is effectivly > 'converted' when you compile, but by leaving the file BSD, > improvements to it can be shared back with the original authors and > put into their main codebase, so it's actually more polite to leave > the license as-is for this file. FWIW, I agree more or less completely with the above. I think the implications are the same for ISC as well, as Luis points out elsewhere in the thread. -- -- bkuhn -- 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
