Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bowler <> | Subject | RE: [Fwd: [PATCH 8/12] LED: Add LED device support for ixp4xx devices] | Date | Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:01:43 -0800 |
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From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@osdl.org] >MIT license is unusual. There's one other file in the kernel which uses it >and that's down in MTD where nobody dares look.
Well, I look at the MTD code a lot... That's why I used it (i.e. that was the existence proof I found that it's fine ;-)
>I don't know whether MIT is GPL-compatible-for-kernel-purposes or not. Help.
Nothing it that license precludes the code being redistributed under the GPL. (It is a verbatim copy of http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
>MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
Is fine with me, indeed, given the license text, I don't believe I retain any rights to *prevent* such a change (and it was certainly not my intent to prevent redistribution under a more restrictive license). Using 'MIT' or substituting some more specific tag must be fine for the same reason (it's a name of a license, not a license itself).
John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
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