Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:24:44 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Tainted Modules Help Notices |
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"Bonds, Deanna" wrote: > > > > > The kernel dpt_i2o is GPL. Its in part built from GPL'd code > > I wrote but > > mostly from what I assume was originally a cross platform > > dpt source set. > > > > Alan > > The main dpt_i2o files are GPL. There are some header files that are used > for the ioctl interface that are used across all platforms and management > utilities. They were originally released under BDS license for the most > flexibility. But we have no problems in re-releasing them under GPL as long > as we have the 'copy-back' right and can continue to use them in our other > products. All we would be concerned with is not having to GPL all the > software that uses those headers (which is pretty much everything related to > the i2o raid cards on every OS).
Then dual-licensing it with BSD and GPL sounds the way to go; quite a few drivers do that, and I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that. - 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/
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