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Hi all,

Michael Frank wrote:

| >+ * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
| >+ * derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
[...]
| >This looks like BSD with advertising clause. I do not think you are
| >allowed to link this with kernel. It does not follow kernel coding style.
[...]
| As said, BSD-only licensed code is _invalid_ to be linked with kernel code,
| therefor swsusp2 will have to drop LZF alltogether unless you relicense it.

The licence above looks like BSD /without/ advertising clause, which
is GPL compatible. Note that the (GPL-incompatible) advertising
clause is the one that says "mention me in your advertising materials"
whereas the above licence only requires mention in accompanying
documentation and says /not/ to use the name of the author to promote
derived works.

See also http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html, under "The
modified BSD license":

This is the original BSD license, modified by removal of the
advertising clause. It is a simple, permissive non-copyleft free
software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.

The licence so described looks to me the same as LZF's licence.

Cheers,

Cameron.

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