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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr@canb.auug.org.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:52 PM
To: John Linn
Cc: grant.likely@secretlab.ca; jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com; 
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; 
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; 
akonovalov@ru.mvista.com; adaplas@gmail.com; Suneel Garapati; Suneel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Xilinx : Framebuffer Driver: Add PLB 
support (non-DCR)

Hi John,

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:11:25 -0600 John Linn 
[off-list ref] wrote:

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

General Public License

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

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.

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

Andrei was copied on the patch, we'll see if he has any thoughts about
it. 

Although I work for MontaVista, I don't speak for them on licensing issues.

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.

-Dale