Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758847AbXH3NDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751496AbXH3NDA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:03:00 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:32798 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752026AbXH3NC7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:02:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46D6C000.30305@davidnewall.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:32:56 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2 References: <2713029743177393055@pripojeni.net> <7515194658758617@pripojeni.net> <20070828171155.GC29343@infradead.org> <3208.1188408545@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <9e4733910708291101i3783a8b1l38f0d5cfb0c2863d@mail.gmail.com> <20070829192858.75aa6542@the-village.bc.nu> <9e4733910708291233h3c4022a9n6e46733c5c50e222@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708291233h3c4022a9n6e46733c5c50e222@mail.gmail.com> 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: 611 Lines: 10 Is it actually necessary to change the license? With the dual-license, you can keep a single code-base for both BSD and Linux platforms, which seems terribly important to me. It'd be awful to lose that. It would be a maintenance nightmare for BSD. Is it even possible--in real life, I mean--to accept GPLed patches into a BSD project? Nightmare, I tell you! - 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/