Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:40:32 -0500 (EST) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE |
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> which says: "I guess the license is meant to be GPL." And so it was almost > certainly intended to be. > > > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>/Werner Cornelius <werner@isdn4linux.de>"); > > > Unfortunately, neither you nor I nor anybody but Kai or Werner (or their > assignees) can do this, as I understand the law. The only proper resolutions > here are to get one of them to make some sort of statement (I suspect even a > "Yea, it's GPL, we just forgot the macro" e-mail from one of them would be good > enough), or to pull the code out of the 2.6.0 tree till it *is* resolved.
Yes, it's GPL, it actually even says so in the comment at the beginning of the file. It's based on Werner's original driver which was GPL, and the work I contributed to the Linux kernel is GPL too, of course.
--Kai
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