Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933703AbXIBN5q (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756445AbXIBN5f (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:57:35 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:51740 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755711AbXIBN5e (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:57:34 -0400 To: Igor Sobrado Cc: Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , "Constantine A. Murenin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070902113638.78fbd202@the-village.bc.nu> <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> <20070902134612.28a88761@the-village.bc.nu> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:57:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Igor Sobrado's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:00:46 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1083 Lines: 31 IANAL, but: Igor Sobrado writes: > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a > developer to remove the GPL license itself and release a > single-licensed BSD code if other parties want to do it? Of course. If it wasn't legal, dual BSD/GPL would just be equal to GPL. Now, dual BSD/GPL equals BSD. OTOH I'd probable leave the original licence text, something like: The actual licence conditions: GPL or BSD or whatever. Portions of this file were licenced under: [the original licence text, not valid as a licence for current file] WRT Atheros driver I'd probably leave the thing as is (i.e., BSD/GPL = in fact BSD), unless something like 50+% of the code is rewritten - it's mostly their hard work after all, isn't it? Not legal requirement, though. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/