Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:45:29 +0100 | From | Xose Vazquez Perez <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6-bk 1/1] tg3: add license |
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David S. Miller wrote:
> Why add this, it's basically implied?
Maybe it should be answered by a lawyer, but it's better to protect our freedom because law is very 'variable'.
> We have a copy of the file "COPYING" at the top > of the source tree, which is why we don't duplicate > it's contents nor excerpts all over the tree.
This is not a duplicate, it's only an advertisement.
Long time ago Torvalds wrote at COPYING: "[...] Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. [...]"
what does MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") mean at tg3.c ?
GPL 1.0 ?
GPL 2 ?
any GPL ?
only 'GPL' ?
Is possible to write BSD or BSD/GPL or GPLv2 or GPL drivers/code *inside* Linux kernel ?
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