Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758472AbXELLR2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:17:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756249AbXELLRV (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:17:21 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:45439 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756112AbXELLRV (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 07:17:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:17:22 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Richard Purdie Cc: LKML , akpm , torvalds@osdl.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel Message-ID: <20070512111722.GJ7984@stusta.de> References: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 43 On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: >... > I've asked the LZO author about the comments on lzo_copyright function > but the code is GPLv2 licensed so is suitable for inclusion in the > kernel. This sounds as if LZO is GPL incompatible similar to code under the 4 clause BSD licence. >... > +/* If you use the LZO library in a product, you *must* keep this > + * copyright string in the executable of your product. > + */ > + > +const char __lzo_copyright[] = > +#if !defined(__LZO_IN_MINLZO) > + LZO_VERSION_STRING; > +#else > + "\r\n\n" > + "LZO data compression library.\n" > + "$Copyright: LZO (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer\n" > + "\n" > + "http://www.oberhumer.com $\n\n" > + "$Id: LZO version: v" LZO_VERSION_STRING ", " LZO_VERSION_DATE " $\n" > + "$Built: " __DATE__ " " __TIME__ " $\n" > +#endif >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/