Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie

From: Murali Karicheri
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 11:12:15 EST


On 10/20/2015 04:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote:
Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you
expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If
so, that seems weired to me.

Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in
the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that
is applicable.

==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c =======================
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
=========================================================================
I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary
either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this
term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with
the product AFAIK.

Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and
I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement
from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the
subject.

Arnd

Thanks Arnd for the clarification.

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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone
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