Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755863AbXHWBAI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753420AbXHWA7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:59:53 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:31002 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753263AbXHWA7w convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:59:52 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.19,296,1183359600"; d="scan'208";a="120489514" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [Git Patch] ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:59:48 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070821154750.GC21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Git Patch] ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type Thread-Index: AcfkCqqfKjJakSMtR1GnxR7EcpL7SgBFbsdw References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821150714.GA7591@hacking> <46CB0169.7090207@suse.de> <20070821151820.GB21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> <46CB034B.1070904@suse.de> <20070821154750.GC21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> From: "Brown, Len" To: "Al Viro" , "Alexey Starikovskiy" Cc: "WANG Cong" , "Jarek Poplawski" , , , "Andrew Morton" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Aug 2007 00:59:50.0887 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8AF5F70:01C7E520] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 30 >On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:22:51PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: >> Yes, that is the proper solution with a single drawback: >> it touches ACPICA dual-licensed code and would take ages to commit, >> and Len would probably ask you to give permission to >re-license it under >> BSD. > >The latter is certainly not a problem (assuming that it's non-trivial >enough to be copyrightable, in the first place). The dual license is at the top of the file. I just need to know when you touch one of these dual-license files that Intel has your permission to ship your change to folks we send the same file to under the BSD-style non-GPL license. eg. BSD, Solaris and HPUX uses this same ACPICA files -- though in a different format. I've actually never had anybody say no when I asked. And I've had some people who play laywers on TV tell me this is not strictly necessary, but other people who play laywers on TV tell me it is best to ask, so I do. thanks, -Len - 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/