Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual BSD/GPL [ was: Re: Generic modules documentation is outdated] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 22 Jul 2002 13:25:45 +0100 |
| |
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 07:56, Andrew Rodland wrote: > > * According to Alan Cox, a license of "BSD without advertisement > clause" is not a suitable free software license. This license type > allows binary only modules without source code. Any modules in the > kernel tarball with this license should really be "Dual BSD/GPL".
The problem with just the BSD tag is that means it might be binary only so undebuggable. If its dual BSD/GPL then at the least the user can demand their GPL rights and get the source to debug it
I think all these are now sorted
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |