From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"Perez-Gonzalez\, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
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	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com>,
	Kevin Hayes <kevin@atheros.com>,
	Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@atheros.com>,
	Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@atheros.com>,
	Doug Dahlby <Doug.Dahlby@atheros.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:02:52 -0500
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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.
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   -- bkuhn