Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261628AbUCRE3K (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:29:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262374AbUCRE3K (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:29:10 -0500 Received: from colo.lackof.org ([198.49.126.79]:4308 "EHLO colo.lackof.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261628AbUCRE3H (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:29:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:29:05 -0700 From: Grant Grundler To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] add note about "Copyright" to SubmittingDrivers Message-ID: <20040318042905.GA32375@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Home-Page: http://www.parisc-linux.org/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 40 Hi Andrew, This patch adds a comment to "Documentation/SubmittingDrivers" about the importance of adding a Copyright notice in submitted code. The parisc-linux port has neglected this in the past and I've been slowly trying to correct that (along with proper GPL header). While I make it sound like GPL is the "only" acceptable license, I'll leave it up to lawyers to determine what other appropriate license could be used for a new driver. thanks, grant Index: Documentation/SubmittingDrivers =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -p -r1.2 SubmittingDrivers --- a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers 7 Jan 2004 21:29:52 -0000 1.2 +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers 18 Mar 2004 04:18:33 -0000 @@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ Licensing: The code must be released to to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well wish to release under multiple licenses. +Copyright: The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL. + It's best if the submitter and copyright owner + are the same person/entity. If not, the name of + the person/entity authorizing use of GPL should be + listed in case it's necessary to verify the will of + the copright owner. + Interfaces: If your driver uses existing interfaces and behaves like other drivers in the same class it will be much more likely to be accepted than if it invents gratuitous new ones. - 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/