On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:12:50PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to port your Yealink driver in Linux to FreeBSD (ISDN4BSD) under a 2
> clause BSD license. Your Yealink driver will be used as a hardware reference
> document. Hope that is OK by you.
>
> I will send you an e-mail when the porting is complete with the source code
> :-)
>
> --HPS
>
Hmm,
The driver is released under GPL2 for good reasons, I object to a
re-license under a BSD or any other "free beer" type of license.
In short: NO.
Regards,
Henk Vergonet
On Monday 26 October 2009 18:12:04 [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:12:50PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm about to port your Yealink driver in Linux to FreeBSD (ISDN4BSD)
> > under a 2 clause BSD license. Your Yealink driver will be used as a
> > hardware reference document. Hope that is OK by you.
> >
> > I will send you an e-mail when the porting is complete with the source
> > code
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > --HPS
>
> Hmm,
>
> The driver is released under GPL2 for good reasons, I object to a
> re-license under a BSD or any other "free beer" type of license.
>
Hi,
I'm not asking about re-licensing the whole driver, I think you misunderstand.
I'm asking for permission to copy some programming commands so that I can use
my Yealink under ISDN4BSD. Where did you get the documentation from, in
between?
--HPS
BTW: I'm not on any of those lists you CC'ed.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:15:40PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2009 18:12:04 [email protected] wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:12:50PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm about to port your Yealink driver in Linux to FreeBSD (ISDN4BSD)
> > > under a 2 clause BSD license. Your Yealink driver will be used as a
> > > hardware reference document. Hope that is OK by you.
> > >
> > > I will send you an e-mail when the porting is complete with the source
> > > code
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > --HPS
> >
> > Hmm,
> >
> > The driver is released under GPL2 for good reasons, I object to a
> > re-license under a BSD or any other "free beer" type of license.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not asking about re-licensing the whole driver, I think you misunderstand.
> I'm asking for permission to copy some programming commands so that I can use
> my Yealink under ISDN4BSD. Where did you get the documentation from, in
> between?
>
Ok there's no problem in using the code as a reference. I only want to
avoid my code being reused in proprietary implementations, as is
possible with BSD licensing.
Regards,
Henk