Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965071Ab3DKQzn (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:55:43 -0400 Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([199.115.105.18]:33648 "EHLO mx2.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964928Ab3DKQzl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:55:41 -0400 From: James Bottomley To: "Shevchenko, Andriy" CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: license of string_helpers module Thread-Topic: license of string_helpers module Thread-Index: AQHONtOzTrULgl8vtkeNIKnLexnWxZjRsnuA Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:55:40 +0000 Message-ID: <1365699339.1927.45.camel@dabdike> References: <1365698594.28859.1.camel@smile> In-Reply-To: <1365698594.28859.1.camel@smile> Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [24.18.112.117] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:43 +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote: > Hello, James. > > Could you please share what is the License applied to the > lib/string_helpers.c module which you wrote on 2008? Um, it's in the kernel, so it follows the licence of the COPYING file, so GPLv2 only. > Shall we update top of the file to be clear on it in future? There's no need to waste space with individual licences, that's why we have a COPYING file. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/