Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261830AbUCVKIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:08:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261867AbUCVKIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:08:17 -0500 Received: from nsmtp.pacific.net.th ([203.121.130.117]:42491 "EHLO nsmtp.pacific.net.th") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261830AbUCVKHA (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:07:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:02:52 +0800 From: "Michael Frank" To: arjanv@redhat.com, "Cameron Patrick" Subject: LZF inclusion in kernel Cc: pcg@goof.com, "Pavel Machek" , "Software Suspend - Mailing Lists" , "kernel list" References: <20040322094053.GO16890@patrick.wattle.id.au> <1079948988.5296.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed delsp=yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1079948988.5296.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.50 (Linux, build 615) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 803 Lines: 23 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:49:48 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 10:40, Cameron Patrick wrote: > >> The licence so described looks to me the same as LZF's licence. > > however at least I would prefer the author to dual license it ANYWAY, > because compression stuff generally is riddled with patents; the author > GPL licensing it at least gives all users a license of the authors > patents (if any). > Right, for kernel side the BSD license is too "simplistic". I like to see a ACPI style license. Regards Michael - 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/