On Jun  5, 2009, crap0101 <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to point out (and ask) about the file cfi.h located in the
> linux-libre kernel at /include/linux/mtd/ . I have some doubdt
> concerning its freedom like explained here:
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00243

The existence of patents or of a patent license for some specification
do not render software non-Free.

Files contributed to Linux under the signed-off-by protocol without
specific licensing terms are licensed under GPLv2, even if they are
licensed elsewhere under different terms.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter    http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/   FSF Latin America board member
Free Software Evangelist      Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
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