Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:10:38 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:16380 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:10:37 -0400 Subject: Re: Dual BSD/GPL [ was: Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated] From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Rodland Cc: Yann Dirson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaos@ocs.com.au In-Reply-To: <20020723025639.1baf8c1b.arodland@noln.com> References: <20020704212240.GB659@bylbo.nowhere.earth> <20020718210259.GJ19580@bylbo.nowhere.earth> <1027032521.8154.48.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020718232535.GB8165@bylbo.nowhere.earth> <20020723025639.1baf8c1b.arodland@noln.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 22 Jul 2002 13:25:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1027340745.31782.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 18 On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 07:56, Andrew Rodland wrote: > > * According to Alan Cox, a license of "BSD without advertisement > clause" is not a suitable free software license. This license type > allows binary only modules without source code. Any modules in the > kernel tarball with this license should really be "Dual BSD/GPL". The problem with just the BSD tag is that means it might be binary only so undebuggable. If its dual BSD/GPL then at the least the user can demand their GPL rights and get the source to debug it I think all these are now sorted - 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/