Re: [I4L] hfcpci missing MODULE_LICENSE

From: Kai Germaschewski
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 18:42:42 EST


On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> which says: "I guess the license is meant to be GPL." And so it was almost
> certainly intended to be.
>
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@xxxxxx>/Werner Cornelius <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
>
>
> Unfortunately, neither you nor I nor anybody but Kai or Werner (or their
> assignees) can do this, as I understand the law. The only proper resolutions
> here are to get one of them to make some sort of statement (I suspect even a
> "Yea, it's GPL, we just forgot the macro" e-mail from one of them would be good
> enough), or to pull the code out of the 2.6.0 tree till it *is* resolved.

Yes, it's GPL, it actually even says so in the comment at the beginning of
the file. It's based on Werner's original driver which was GPL, and the
work I contributed to the Linux kernel is GPL too, of course.

--Kai


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