Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:11:17 -0400 | From | Murali Karicheri <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie |
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On 10/20/2015 04:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote: >> Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you >> expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If >> so, that seems weired to me. >> >> Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in >> the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that >> is applicable. >> >> ==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c ======================= >> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright >> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the >> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. >> ========================================================================= >> I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary >> either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this >> term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with >> the product AFAIK. > > Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and > I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement > from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the > subject. > > Arnd > Thanks Arnd for the clarification.
-- Murali Karicheri Linux Kernel, Keystone
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