Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bradley M. Kuhn" <> | Subject | Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first | Date | Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:02:52 -0500 |
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I assume someone started cc'ing me on this thread to get my opinion as a non-lawyer GPL geek.
david@lang.hm wrote: > However, there are quite a few files in the kernel that are BSD > licensed, when combined with other GPL code, the only way you can > re-distribute the result is under the GPL, so it is effectivly > 'converted' when you compile, but by leaving the file BSD, > improvements to it can be shared back with the original authors and > put into their main codebase, so it's actually more polite to leave > the license as-is for this file.
FWIW, I agree more or less completely with the above. I think the implications are the same for ISC as well, as Luis points out elsewhere in the thread. -- -- bkuhn
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