linux-kernel - Re: Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel?

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Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:16:43 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	David Johnston <dj@...dhat.com>, tytso@....edu,
	richard.weinberger@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel?

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 09:29 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> Yes I am willing to allow you to retain it.
>> I guess, to be all legalese..
>>     I herein permit you to use any 802.11 related C code taken from the
>> www.deadhat.com website, in the linux kernel, and to publish it under
>> the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
>>
>> Yes I've emailed ralink and VIA. I hope they're nice people.
>
> First of all, thank you (both for the code and for being reasonable.)
>
> It sounds like this might simply have been an honest misreading.
>

interesting.

in the git history, some functions take IN/OUT macro.

-VOID AES_GTK_KEY_UNWRAP(IN UCHAR * key,
-                       OUT UCHAR * plaintext,
-                       IN UINT32 c_len, IN UCHAR * ciphertext)

so they had driver for other os at first, and ported that one to Linux later ?

Yinghai
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