Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756899Ab0FIPWP (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:22:15 -0400 Received: from mailout4.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.14]:61467 "EHLO mailout4.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753049Ab0FIPWN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:22:13 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:22:58 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBOYXphcmV3aWN6?= Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 08/13] USB: gadget: g_serial: INF file updated In-reply-to: <20100609145946.GB20543@kroah.com> To: Greg KH Cc: Xiaofan Chen , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, David Brownell , David Brownell , Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: Organization: Samsung Electronics Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Linux) References: <996015.66352.qm@web180311.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20100609145946.GB20543@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2732 Lines: 63 >> I dunno, obviously I want to make everything according to law to avoid >> any problems. Maybe we should contact someone at The Software Freedom >> Law Center or some similar entity? On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:59:46 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > Ick, no, that's not needed here. Still I had a chat on IRC with a person who knows copyright law rather well[1] which pointed me to a few things. ;) > Take the copyright off if this is something that _you_ wrote. If you > copied it from somewhere and modified it, say where you copied it from, > and show the rights that allowed you to copy it. > > Where exactly did you get it from originally? The RNDIS template was taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff570620.aspx The CDC ACM was sent by Xiaofan Chen who said that it is probably taken indirectly form MSDN as well. The MSDN TOS reads: > If Microsoft makes any code marked as “sample” available on this > Web Site without a License Agreement, then that code is licensed > to you under the terms of the Microsoft Limited Public License. Where the MLPL can be found at: . It seems like a perfectly legal free software license except point 3(F): > (F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) & 2(B) > extend only to the software or derivative works that you create that > run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product. Also, 3(D) requires that the whole license is included: > (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, > you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of > this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of > the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under > a license that complies with this license. Therefore, shall we include the license along with the INFs and ignore the fact it's not fully free software? _______________________________________________________________________ [1] I'm deliberately not using the word "lawyer" here not I give the person's name as to not make an impression that it was a legal advice or to make him in any way liable. This was *not* a legal advice. -- Best regards, _ _ | Humble Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o | Computer Science, Michał "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) +----[mina86*mina86.com]---[mina86*jabber.org]----ooO--(_)--Ooo-- -- 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/