Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:41:47 -0800 | Subject | Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first |
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this >>> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's >>> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for >>> > >>> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL, >>> >>> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with >>> permissive licensed files. >> >> GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so >> permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL. > > Oh?
I actually was just thinking of getting rid of all the silly MODULE_LICENSE() crap we have that is for GPL-Compatible licenses and just adding:
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL-Compatible");
and be done with it. All the other stuff just confuses people.
Luis
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