Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:45:29 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2
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> Aren't patches made against the kernel GPL'd if the author doesn't
> explicitly grant them more liberal BSD license in addition?

That would be the normal assumption.

> The problem then comes in taking the patches that were only made
> available against GPL code and reshipping them under the BSD license
> without the author explicitly agreeing to this.
> 
> What if a patch spans both code that is pure GPL and code imported
> from BSD, how do you license it?

See the acpi codebase for a worked example.

Alan
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