Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:50:55 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:25 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:28 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > > > I meant the ipmi, smbus and copa modules by Fujitsu-Siemens. > > > > > > They are provided in source form, but I just found out (reading the > > > headers and not just the lines that broke the compile) they are not open > > > source. Perhaps one should prod them to slap a modified-BSD or perhaps > > > GPL label onto their modules. > > > > is there an URL to these? > > http://download.fujitsu-siemens.com/prim_supportcd/Programs/General/ServView/Linux/agents/srvmagt-mods_src.suse.rpm > > > > It seems you'd then maintain them after their submission? :-) > > > > usually such modules are extremely low maintenance once merged.... There > > are many many drivers without a maintainer, and they still get fixed. > > As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear > a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved."
and MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
so it *IS* gpl licensed!
the code is a bit horrible though and no surprise it breaks ;)
you can always make drivers broken enough to break at the slightest change ;)
(it also seems to contain an entire ipmi layer, linux already has one so I wonder why they're not just using that as basis)
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