From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[email protected]]
>MIT license is unusual. There's one other file in the kernel which uses it
>and that's down in MTD where nobody dares look.
Well, I look at the MTD code a lot... That's why I used it (i.e. that was the
existence proof I found that it's fine ;-)
>I don't know whether MIT is GPL-compatible-for-kernel-purposes or not. Help.
Nothing it that license precludes the code being redistributed under the
GPL. (It is a verbatim copy of
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
>MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
Is fine with me, indeed, given the license text, I don't believe I retain
any rights to *prevent* such a change (and it was certainly not my intent
to prevent redistribution under a more restrictive license). Using 'MIT'
or substituting some more specific tag must be fine for the same reason
(it's a name of a license, not a license itself).
John Bowler <[email protected]>
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