[PATCH 05/25] msm: generalize clock support.

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Sat May 29 09:51:30 EDT 2010


Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2010-05-26 18:58:33, David Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:37:54PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > > > Um, this is a standard 3-clause BSD license.  There are nearly
> > > > 900 existing files in the kernel that have this license on them.
> > > 
> > > Are you sure? I believe that Dual GPL/BSD is ok, just BSD is not.
> > 
> > It is, according to the FSF
> > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>
> 
> Not acording to kernel sources. Please make it dual GPL/BSD.

Glibc contains many source files with only a BSD license header, and
various other GPL-compatible licenses.

If it's fine for Glibc, I believe it is surely fine for Linux.

Pavel, do you mean something specific by "not according to kernel sources"?

-- Jamie



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