Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762892AbXH1ULX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:11:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755666AbXH1ULI (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:11:08 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]:18592 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753346AbXH1ULE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:11:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MKxuIuuOWVN00xzP6LbY17NJ5PCsdFdLFOXcLUZ3EILSBDsJta3aw2/5lpDanISdAgtT3UEO17O2mbmr6QomgeGcPzTpbNfYcl/qkZ9LyMK+YF5jE1/Xi0ZRkknosM7u6SqCSF2j3fbBo+jaNLYveV2bM8yV2Hw6mhe1SyNmRQE= Message-ID: <43e72e890708281311y630b85fcjb132bd065478d760@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:11:03 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Jiri Slaby" , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2 In-Reply-To: <20070828171155.GC29343@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2713029743177393055@pripojeni.net> <7515194658758617@pripojeni.net> <20070828171155.GC29343@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 22 On 8/28/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:00:50PM -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > ath5k, license is GPLv2 > > > > The files are available only under GPLv2 since now. > > Is this really a good idea? Most of the reverse-engineering was > done by the OpenBSD folks, and it would certainly be helpful to > work together with them on new hardware revisions, etc.. Technically the best we can do is to leave the license as dual licensed, but keep in that technically that means nothing and is just for show, the GPL is what would apply as its derivative work and is the most restrictive license. This applies to any other driver in the kernel right now with a dual license tag. Luis - 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/