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

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Message-ID: <87hbex1nwz.fsf@ebb.org>
Date:	Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:02:52 -0500
From:	"Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@....org>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
	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

I assume someone started cc'ing me on this thread to get my opinion as a
non-lawyer GPL geek.

david@...g.hm wrote:
> However, there are quite a few files in the kernel that are BSD
> licensed, when combined with other GPL code, the only way you can
> re-distribute the result is under the GPL, so it is effectivly
> 'converted' when you compile, but by leaving the file BSD,
> improvements to it can be shared back with the original authors and
> put into their main codebase, so it's actually more polite to leave
> the license as-is for this file.

FWIW, I agree more or less completely with the above.  I think the
implications are the same for ISC as well, as Luis points out elsewhere
in the thread.
-- 
   -- bkuhn
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