Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760001AbXELU5R (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 16:57:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757473AbXELU5D (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 16:57:03 -0400 Received: from 3a.49.1343.static.theplanet.com ([67.19.73.58]:56560 "EHLO pug.o-hand.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754586AbXELU5A (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 16:57:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel From: Richard Purdie To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , LKML , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, David Woodhouse , "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" In-Reply-To: <20070512094710.43ab1b2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070512111722.GJ7984@stusta.de> <1178983055.5831.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070512094710.43ab1b2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:56:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1179003405.5831.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 39 On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 09:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 16:17:35 +0100 Richard Purdie wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > 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. > > > > + */ > > > > I've had a reply from the copyright holder/author saying he's going to > > change this wording in the next LZO release and that the code *is* GPLv2 > > licensed as per the headers on the files. > > > > It would be ideal if the author of that code could send us a > signed-off-by: as per secton 11 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Section 11b says I can submit it but I've asked the author about a signed off by line (he's cc'd) for the alleviation of any doubt. Cheers, Richard - 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/