Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:22:58 +0200 | From | Michał Nazarewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4 08/13] USB: gadget: g_serial: INF file updated |
| |
>> I dunno, obviously I want to make everything according to law to avoid >> any problems. Maybe we should contact someone at The Software Freedom >> Law Center or some similar entity?
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:59:46 +0200, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > Ick, no, that's not needed here.
Still I had a chat on IRC with a person who knows copyright law rather well[1] which pointed me to a few things. ;)
> Take the copyright off if this is something that _you_ wrote. If you > copied it from somewhere and modified it, say where you copied it from, > and show the rights that allowed you to copy it. > > Where exactly did you get it from originally?
The RNDIS template was taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff570620.aspx
The CDC ACM was sent by Xiaofan Chen who said that it is probably taken indirectly form MSDN as well.
The MSDN TOS reads: > If Microsoft makes any code marked as “sample” available on this > Web Site without a License Agreement, then that code is licensed > to you under the terms of the Microsoft Limited Public License.
Where the MLPL can be found at: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#MLPL>. It seems like a perfectly legal free software license except point 3(F):
> (F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) & 2(B) > extend only to the software or derivative works that you create that > run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product.
Also, 3(D) requires that the whole license is included: > (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, > you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of > this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of > the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under > a license that complies with this license.
Therefore, shall we include the license along with the INFs and ignore the fact it's not fully free software?
_______________________________________________________________________ [1] I'm deliberately not using the word "lawyer" here not I give the person's name as to not make an impression that it was a legal advice or to make him in any way liable. This was *not* a legal advice.
-- Best regards, _ _ | Humble Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o | Computer Science, Michał "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) +----[mina86*mina86.com]---[mina86*jabber.org]----ooO--(_)--Ooo-- -- 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/
| |