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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mach-versatile: debug_ll.h licenc
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:08:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110704090853.GF4338@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB9v_DHtGHydZUxn6rJi7RZ_ZZ7encjz=E9TJeL0gwm02TQscw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:58:34PM +0400, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> 2011/7/4 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@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.

Uwe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-04  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-04  5:13 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-07-04  5:48 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2011-07-04  7:47   ` Bahadir Balban
2011-07-04  7:59 ` Uwe Kleine-König
     [not found]   ` <CAB9v_DHtGHydZUxn6rJi7RZ_ZZ7encjz=E9TJeL0gwm02TQscw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-04  9:08     ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2011-07-04  9:31       ` Uwe Kleine-König

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