Re: [PATCH 4/5] Net: ath5k, license is GPLv2

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

> How about asking for changes to be dual-licenced too ?

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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