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From: Dale Farnsworth [mailto:dale@farnsworth.org] =

Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:36 AM
To: John Linn; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Xilinx : Framebuffer Driver: Add PLB =

support (non-DCR)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr@canb.auug.org.au] =

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Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:52 PM
To: John Linn
Cc: grant.likely@secretlab.ca; jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com; =

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linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; =

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linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; =

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akonovalov@ru.mvista.com; adaplas@gmail.com; Suneel =

Garapati; Suneel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Xilinx : Framebuffer Driver: Add PLB =

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support (non-DCR)
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Hi John,
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:11:25 -0600 John Linn =

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[off-list ref] wrote:

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  * 2002-2007 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc.
  * 2007 (c) Secret Lab Technologies, Ltd.
+ * 2009 (c) Xilinx Inc.
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- * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU =

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General Public License

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- * version 2.  This program is licensed "as is" without =

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any warranty of any

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- * kind, whether express or implied.
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+ * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
+ * either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
+ * later version.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+ * License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
+ * Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
+ * 02139, USA.

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This changes the license for this file (from "GPLv2" to "GPLv2 or
later").  Have you asked the other copyright owners about that?

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Andrei was copied on the patch, we'll see if he has any =

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In my opinion, unless someone can come up with a compelling reason
for changing the license terms of a file, they shouldn't be changed.
MontaVista made a deliberate, considered decision to license that file
under GPLv2 and not "GPLv2 or later".  Those who use and distribute
modifications to GPLv2 licensed work need to respect the license.

Thanks Dale, we agree, Grant said the same thing. I'll fix that when I
respin the patch.

-- John

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-Dale
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