netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:53:04 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
CC:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / È£ÑÀ 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, Urs Thuermann <urs@...ogud.escape.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, joe@...ches.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver

Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>>>I do think you need to allow people to select GPLv2 only.
>>>>      
>>>
> The Linux Kernel is currently under GPLv2 and we just wanted to follow
> Linus' mind and so we referenced the COPYING file which many other
> source does as well. Indeed it was a hard thing to make our code
> available under GPL (as creating and publishing open source software is
> really no a usual thing for the Volkswagen rights department). So i
> discussed with the rights department about several disclaimers inside
> the current Kernel (especially the stuff that has been signed off by
> companies like IBM, Motorola, etc.). In this process it turned out to be
> the best to license the code under "Dual BSD/GPL" as it grants more
> rights to the programmer (including ourselves) than a GPL only license.
> I assume this was the intention from IBM, Motorola and all the others
> also. Btw. inside the Kernel context it behaves exactly like GPL code
> (like all the other dual license code).
> 
> So i really can't see any problem here. If so there would have been a
> big discussion about the other "Dual BSD/GPL" code.


Yoshifuji's point was that the license seems to contradict itself,
it says you may choose GPL, but have to retain BSD. And that is
not about Dual BSD/GPL but about the specific wording.

/me runs and refrains from the discussion as promised :)
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