Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755240Ab0LAQmH (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:42:07 -0500 Received: from catholic.ebb.org ([67.207.139.67]:54807 "EHLO catholic.ebb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755178Ab0LAQmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:42:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 444 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:42:05 EST From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" To: david@lang.hm Cc: Pavel Machek , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , Greg KH , David Miller , "John W. Linville" , Stephen Hemminger , "Perez-Gonzalez\, Inaky" , Charles Marker , Jouni Malinen , Kevin Hayes , Zhifeng Cai , Don Breslin , Doug Dahlby , Julia Lawall Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first Organization: Opinions expressed in this email are my own and are not necessarily those of any organization with which I have an affiliation. References: <20101118113441.74fcdc21@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101130192648.GA1623@ucw.cz> <20101130200019.GA28735@elf.ucw.cz> X-No-Archive: yes X-Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are my own and are not necessarily those of any organization with which I have an affiliation. X-Archive: no Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:02:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:13:05 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87hbex1nwz.fsf@ebb.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 22 I assume someone started cc'ing me on this thread to get my opinion as a non-lawyer GPL geek. david@lang.hm wrote: > However, there are quite a few files in the kernel that are BSD > licensed, when combined with other GPL code, the only way you can > re-distribute the result is under the GPL, so it is effectivly > 'converted' when you compile, but by leaving the file BSD, > improvements to it can be shared back with the original authors and > put into their main codebase, so it's actually more polite to leave > the license as-is for this file. FWIW, I agree more or less completely with the above. I think the implications are the same for ISC as well, as Luis points out elsewhere in the thread. -- -- bkuhn -- 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/