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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:39:28 -0200
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Subject: Re: Licensing on lib/bsearch.c?
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Tim, Andre,
>
> ? I note that the license header on lib/bsearch.c is GPLv2. ?I wanted to
> steal it for SAMBA, which is GPLv3. ?This is one reason all my kernel code is
> v2 or later.
>
> If you don't have strong objections, could you send something like the
> following so I don't have to reimplement and re-test?
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
>
> Subject: bsearch: extend license to GPL 2+
>
> Rusty asked nicely.
>
> diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
> --- a/lib/bsearch.c
> +++ b/lib/bsearch.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
> ?*
> ?* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> ?* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> ?*/
>
> ?#include <linux/module.h>
>

Hi, Rusty!

    It's surely fine by me:

Acked-by: Andr? Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>

    Tim?

Thank you,
Andr?
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