Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Luis Villa
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 17:20 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 11:56 -0800, Chris Maresca wrote: >> > Just as a point here, and only because I know far too much about OSS >> > licensing and have worked closely

Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Rick Scott
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 17:20 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 11:56 -0800, Chris Maresca wrote: > > Just as a point here, and only because I know far too much about OSS > > licensing and have worked closely with the Linux Foundation. > > > > If you intend to follow kernel mainlin

Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 11:56 -0800, Chris Maresca wrote: > Just as a point here, and only because I know far too much about OSS > licensing and have worked closely with the Linux Foundation. > > If you intend to follow kernel mainline as decided by Linus, he has > already stated that ALL mainline

Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Chris Maresca
Just as a point here, and only because I know far too much about OSS licensing and have worked closely with the Linux Foundation. If you intend to follow kernel mainline as decided by Linus, he has already stated that ALL mainline code should be GPLv2 only. So I would strongly suggest that you

Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 04:18 -0500, Rick Scott wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 01:06 -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > > > I notice that your license text for your kernel module indicates > > "GPL v2 only" while the code indicates "GPL v2 or later." > > That seemed to be what the kernel sou

Re: [Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-08 Thread Rick Scott
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 01:06 -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > Hi Rick, > > I notice that your license text for your kernel module indicates > "GPL v2 only" while the code indicates "GPL v2 or later." That seemed to be what the kernel sources I looked at had, so I wanted to go with that. > > If you rea

[Barry-devel] Kernel driver license details

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Frey
Hi Rick, I notice that your license text for your kernel module indicates "GPL v2 only" while the code indicates "GPL v2 or later." If you really do mean "GPL v2 only", you may wish to apply the following patch. This is based on the comments in include/linux/module.h. - Chris diff --git a/ker