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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...>, <linville@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-wireless@...>, <netdev@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 7:59 am

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:13 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:


In theory, that could work, but in practice relying on functions that
the Linux kernel offers in GPLv2-only headers etc. will make the result
GPLv2 anyway, and disentangling it would be a nightmare.

johannes
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[PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jiri Slaby, (Tue Aug 28, 12:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Johannes Berg, (Wed Aug 29, 5:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jiri Slaby, (Wed Aug 29, 6:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Xavier Bestel, (Wed Aug 29, 9:13 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Johannes Berg, (Thu Aug 30, 7:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Aug 28, 1:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, , (Wed Aug 29, 1:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jon Smirl, (Wed Aug 29, 2:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Alan Cox, (Wed Aug 29, 2:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jon Smirl, (Wed Aug 29, 3:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, David Newall, (Thu Aug 30, 9:02 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Alan Cox, (Wed Aug 29, 3:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jarek Poplawski, (Thu Aug 30, 9:45 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Michael Buesch, (Wed Aug 29, 3:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jarek Poplawski, (Thu Aug 30, 4:26 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Jarek Poplawski, (Thu Aug 30, 4:32 am)
Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Tue Aug 28, 4:11 pm)