Hi Alan,
Hmmm, I hadn't considered the "derived from" aspect. The 1st several lines
from scanner.c state "Portions may be copyright Brad Keryan and Michael Gee.
Originally based upon mouse.c (Brad Keryan) and printer.c (Michael Gee)."
A couple of points/observations:
- mouse.c no longer exists (replaced with usbmouse.c which has been a complete
rewrite)
- I don't even have a clue as to how much of scanner.c even resembles printer.c
since Linux USB has matured quite a bit since I 1st submitted scanner.c
(8/31/1999) - since that time, both printer.c and scanner.c have changed
drastically (rewrites?) and evolved seperately.
Brad, Michael, do you have any input into this one way or the other?
Thanks,
/\/elson
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I found a couple of articles talking about GPL vs LGPL. Right now, I'm
> > inclinded to go with GPL. However, the individual I'm in contact with is
> > claiming that "Licensing it with pure GPL, means you can ONLY USE GPL KERNELS.
> > Which means even *BSD couldnt use it." How accurate is this?
>
> Its true to an extent. Roughly speaking the licenses line up something like
> this
>
> o GPL - protects the work as a whole
> o LGPL - protects the work as a library but allows it to be used
> with non-free code
> o MPL - protects the file level rights not module level
> o BSD - microsoft can drop it in NT if they want fix it and keep
> the changes
>
> It depends what you wanted to achieve. People have done various single or
> multiple licensed items. There are several dual GPL/BSD devices in the
> kernel because that is what the driver author wanted.
>
> If your code is based on someone elses ("derived work" in legalese) then you
> need to get their permission too or stop using the bita you acquired that
> way (eg if you based it on the usb skeleton driver).
>
> At the end of the day its your business if its your code. Simple as that.
>
> Alan
>
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