mach-versatile: debug_ll.h licenc

Alexey Zaytsev alexey.zaytsev at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 05:10:39 EDT 2011


2011/7/4 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:58:34PM +0400, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
>> 2011/7/4 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
>> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 07:13:47AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>       ./arch/arm/mach-versatile/include/mach/debug_ll.h
>> >>       Can you put this file under gpl v2 or later
>> >>
>> >>       Barebox is GPLv2 Only project
>> > INAL, but I think this is not a problem. Barebox itself just doesn't
>> > make use of the possibility to use a later version of the GPL. Still you
>> > can pick that file out of barebox and use it in a GPL v3 project.
>> >
>> > But maybe I just didn't get what you intended with your mail.
>>
>> This is a problem. If some files are gpl 2 only, and others are gpl 3
>> only, you can't distribute the result, as the licenses are not
>> compatible.
> We're not talking about "gpl v3 only" (or "v3 or later") here. Including a
> "v2 or later" header in a "v2 only" .c file should be no problem.

Check the original message. The header in question was gplv3, probably
by a mistake.



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