Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:45:29 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2 |
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> Aren't patches made against the kernel GPL'd if the author doesn't > explicitly grant them more liberal BSD license in addition?
That would be the normal assumption.
> The problem then comes in taking the patches that were only made > available against GPL code and reshipping them under the BSD license > without the author explicitly agreeing to this. > > What if a patch spans both code that is pure GPL and code imported > from BSD, how do you license it?
See the acpi codebase for a worked example.
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