linux-kernel - Re: Is the PCI serial driver code GPL v2 or v3

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Message-ID: <20081109193357.GA1549@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:34:01 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@...too.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lee Howard <lee.howard@...npine.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is the PCI serial driver code GPL v2 or v3

On Thu 2008-11-06 19:12:50, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> > It seems like a typo to me to.. That wording has been constant since the 
> > file drivers/serial/serial_8250_pci.c was created based on work in 
> > drivers/char/serial.c:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=33c0d1b0c3ebb61243d9b19ce70d9063acff2aac
> > serial_8250.c has the "or later" clause there.
> > 
> > But I suppose the best way is to ask the originator of that file. 
> > Russell, what say you?
> > Did you mean to license that file under GPL-2 or GPL-2+?
> 
> It was based upon the original serial.c by Ted T'so, but with some
> reworking to add a separate quirks table, and quite a number of cleanups.
> 
> My personal position is that code I author is GPLv2, and not GPLv2 or
> later.  So it's a question whether you consider that I'm the author
> of the code in that file, or whether you think it's Ted's with my
> contributions were under Ted's original terms.

Original poster wants GPLv3 version for use in grub-2. Would you be
willing to relicense your changes in serial_8250.c, so that he can do
that? Would Ted be willing to do that?
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