Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966111AbXIBM2o (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757251AbXIBM2d (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:28:33 -0400 Received: from fresno.net.uniovi.es ([156.35.11.2]:55444 "EHLO FRESNO.NET.UNIOVI.ES" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755402AbXIBM2b (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:28:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4080 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:28:31 EDT Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:28:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Igor Sobrado Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing In-reply-to: <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Alan Cox , "Constantine A. Murenin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070902113638.78fbd202@the-village.bc.nu> <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2075 Lines: 50 On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:27PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: >> Reyk code was never dual licensed! His code is under truly free licensing >> terms (BSD). > > Jiri's patch touched both files containing BSD-only code by Reyk and > code Reyk contributed to leaving the file dual licenced. Ok. > You mixed two completely different things in your email: > > 1. Jiri's patch (that was never merged into Linux) not only removed the > BSD header from dual licenced files but also from not dual licenced > files. > > 2. Theo accused Alan that telling people that it was OK to choose one > licence for dual licenced code was "advising people to break the law". > > Jiri's patch was legally not OK regarding 1. - there's no discussion > regarding this. > > The point 2 is what the email of Theo that was forwarded to linux-kernel > is about and what the discussion is about. That's quite a rude action > by Theo unless he's able to prove that this accusation is correct. When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these licensing terms concurrently. It is easy to understand. Removing (or changing) the conditions that apply to the program from the source code and documentation *without* an authorization from all the author(s) is illegal. So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD license that a modification of the distribution terms is illegal. It is the first clause on the BSD license: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer, * without modification. So, removing (or changing) the list of conditions on the BSD license is not allowed. Igor. - 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/