Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759285AbXEMMcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757657AbXEMMb7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:59 -0400 Received: from mail.servus.at ([193.170.194.20]:39344 "EHLO mail.servus.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757533AbXEMMb6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:58 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1932 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:58 EDT Message-ID: <4646FDA9.8070100@oberhumer.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:59:37 +0200 From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" Organization: oberhumer.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie CC: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , LKML , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel References: <1178096183.5860.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070512111722.GJ7984@stusta.de> <1178983055.5831.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070512094710.43ab1b2f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179003405.5831.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1179003405.5831.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-no-Archive: yes X-Oberhumer-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. Trust us. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1857 Lines: 50 Richard Purdie wrote: > 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. I agree that the comment does conflict with the GPL. Just to avoid any doubts, LZO _is_ GPL v2, and I will fix that comment for the next version. Please accept my signed-off-by for Richard's kernel patch in the meantime. Signed-off-by: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer ~Markus > > Cheers, > > Richard > > -- Markus Oberhumer, , http://www.oberhumer.com/ - 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/