lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <463730B5.20206@handhelds.org>
Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 08:21:09 -0400
From:	Jamey Hicks <jamey@...dhelds.org>
To:	Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@...il.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 2/4] SoC base drivers: ASIC3 SoC hardware definitions

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Alan,
>
> Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 1:27:51 PM, you wrote:
>
>   
>>>> + * Copyright 2001 Compaq Computer Corporation.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Use consistent with the GNU GPL is permitted,
>>>> + * provided that this copyright notice is
>>>> + * preserved in its entirety in all copies and derived works.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
>>>> + * AS TO THE USEFULNESS OR CORRECTNESS OF THIS CODE OR ITS
>>>> + * FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>>>>         
>
>   
>> This doesn't appear to be self consistent or GPL compatible. Any binary
>> will be a derivative work and will not contain the copyright notice.
>>     
>
>         Well, this is one of those hard questions... Fortunately,
> people who worked on this and were Compaq employees are reachable, so
> I contacted Jamie Hicks, who is one of the authors of iPaq ports,
> regarding solution for this. Jamie, would it be possible to leave
> Compaq and other copyright notices, and Compaq disclaimer intact,
> but replace following paragraph:
>
>   
>> + * Use consistent with the GNU GPL is permitted,
>> + * provided that this copyright notice is
>> + * preserved in its entirety in all copies and derived works.
>>     
>
>         With more common wording as appears in kernel sources:
>
>   
>>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>>   (at your option) any later version.
>>     
>
> (or GPL2 wording, or verbose wording, whatever you see fit)
>
> Thanks!
>   
The intent of the vague wording was to have the copyright notice and 
Compaq disclaimer of warranties preserved in the source code, not in 
binaries, but it is definitely ambiguous. As I understand it, copyright 
law says the copyright notices need to be preserved in source code, so 
that part of the statement is redundant, and GPL has its own warrantee 
disclaimer, so I think the standard wording is just fine. I approve 
changing to the more standard GPL wording used in the kernel sources in 
order to make this acceptable into the kernel.org tree.

Jamey Hicks

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ