Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:40:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@unh.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
cc: Tonnerre Anklin <thunder@keepsake.ch>,
       Werner Cornelius <werner@isdn4linux.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE 
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> which says: "I guess the license is meant to be GPL."  And so it was almost
> certainly intended to be.
> 
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>/Werner Cornelius <werner@isdn4linux.de>");
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, neither you nor I nor anybody but Kai or Werner (or their
> assignees) can do this, as I understand the law.  The only proper resolutions
> here are to get one of them to make some sort of statement (I suspect even a
> "Yea, it's GPL, we just forgot the macro" e-mail from one of them would be good
> enough), or to pull the code out of the 2.6.0 tree till it *is* resolved.

Yes, it's GPL, it actually even says so in the comment at the beginning of 
the file. It's based on Werner's original driver which was GPL, and the 
work I contributed to the Linux kernel is GPL too, of course.

--Kai


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