linux-kernel - Re: Yealink driver

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Message-ID: <20091028161722.GA30039@systol-ng.god.lan>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:17:22 +0100
From:	spam@...tol-ng.god.lan
To:	Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@....net>
Cc:	Henk.Vergonet@...il.com, licensing@....org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yealink driver

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 09:15:40PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2009 18:12:04 spam@...tol-ng.god.lan wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:12:50PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm about to port your Yealink driver in Linux to FreeBSD (ISDN4BSD)
> > > under a 2 clause BSD license. Your Yealink driver will be used as a
> > > hardware reference document. Hope that is OK by you.
> > >
> > > I will send you an e-mail when the porting is complete with the source
> > > code
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > --HPS
> >
> > Hmm,
> >
> > The driver is released under GPL2 for good reasons, I object to a
> > re-license under a BSD or any other "free beer" type of license.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not asking about re-licensing the whole driver, I think you misunderstand. 
> I'm asking for permission to copy some programming commands so that I can use 
> my Yealink under ISDN4BSD. Where did you get the documentation from, in 
> between?
> 

Ok there's no problem in using the code as a reference. I only want to
avoid my code being reused in proprietary implementations, as is
possible with BSD licensing.

Regards,
Henk

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