As copyright holder, if I say it doesn't conflict with the GPL, then
it doesn't conflict with the GPL.
However, there's no point in causing people's brains to overheat, so
yes, I grant permission for the code to be relicensed under the
GPLv2. Please make sure that this change in licensing makes its way
upstream.
-russ
Jan Lübbe writes:
Hello Russ,
Your driver for the cs89x0 network card is used in the etherboot
package. The copyright/license statements are a bit problematic for
Debian as cs89x0.h file states This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 1.
This license statement is currently also in the Linux kernel source
(which makes it incompatible to the rest of Linux).
This license makes it incompatible with the rest of etherboot which is
GPLv2.
cs89x0.c states: Permission is granted to distribute the enclosed
cs89x0.[ch] driver only in conjunction with the Etherboot package. The
code is ordinarily distributed under the GPL.
Could you please clarify what you mean by only in conjunction with the
Etherboot package, as this conflicts with the GPL.
Would you be willing to relicense your contributions under the GPLv2
without additional restrictions?
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