Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263194AbUCYPRO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:17:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263197AbUCYPRO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:17:14 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:53376 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263194AbUCYPRJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:17:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:56:39 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham , Pavel Machek , Arjan van de Ven , Cameron Patrick , Michael Frank , Pavel Machek , Software Suspend - Mailing Lists , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] lzf license Message-ID: <20040325145639.GH1505@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1079948988.5296.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040322182121.GA21521@schmorp.de> <1080166848.2628.3.camel@calvin.wpcb.org.au> <20040325114736.GA300@elf.ucw.cz> <20040322094053.GO16890@patrick.wattle.id.au> <1079948988.5296.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040322182121.GA21521@schmorp.de> <1080166848.2628.3.camel@calvin.wpcb.org.au> <20040325142654.GA11633@schmorp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040325142654.GA11633@schmorp.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 26 Hi! > > Linking BSD w/o advertising with kernel is okay, but it would taint > > the kernel, and is bad idea w.r.t. patents, anyway. Dual BSD/GPL is > > better way to go. > > Well, if there is any problem with relicensing the code as GPL, let me > know. I offered to change the license to make this smoother, but lots of > kernel code came from a bsd license and was relicensed before. > > If there are problems with that, I'd like to hear. I see no point in > keeping the code out just because it isn't gpl, but I don't see a point > in making the original distribution dual licensed for no reason. (and, as > I said, there is lots of bsd-derived code in the kernel and I am _really_ > keen on getting rid of any problems that forbid relicensing). So if Nigel takes the BSD license out and replaces it with GPL, thats okay with you? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/