Re: Why is my copyright code in the linux kernel?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/04/2011 02:16 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2011 09:29 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>>> Yes I am willing to allow you to retain it.
>>> I guess, to be all legalese..
>>>     I herein permit you to use any 802.11 related C code taken from the
>>> www.deadhat.com website, in the linux kernel, and to publish it under
>>> the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
>>>
>>> Yes I've emailed ralink and VIA. I hope they're nice people.
>>
>> First of all, thank you (both for the code and for being reasonable.)
>>
>> It sounds like this might simply have been an honest misreading.
>>
> 
> interesting.
> 
> in the git history, some functions take IN/OUT macro.
> 
> -VOID AES_GTK_KEY_UNWRAP(IN UCHAR * key,
> -                       OUT UCHAR * plaintext,
> -                       IN UINT32 c_len, IN UCHAR * ciphertext)
> 
> so they had driver for other os at first, and ported that one to Linux later ?
> 

It's a staging driver for a reason...

	-hpa

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