linux-kernel - Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:19 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	bkuhn@....org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>,
	Charles Marker <Charles.Marker@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@...eros.com>,
	Kevin Hayes <kevin@...eros.com>,
	Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@...eros.com>,
	Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@...eros.com>,
	Doug Dahlby <Doug.Dahlby@...eros.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this
> >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's
> >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for
> >> >
> >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL,
> >>
> >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with
> >> permissive licensed files.
> >
> > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so
> > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL.
> 
> Oh?

Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so.

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...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I
have it.
							Pavel

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