Re: [PATCH][RESEND] Clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Aug 04 2007 - 15:00:24 EST


On 04/08/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:31:32PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > (resending trivial patch, originally from 18/6-2007 02:33)
> >
> >
> > Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions about
> > licensing.
> > Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the
> > GPL version 2.
>
> This really doesn't elong into CREDITS. If you're not good enough with
> the general GPLv2 stance add additional diclaimers to the files you've
> made changes to (in an extent that is copyrightable)
>

Ok, I can live with that.
I just got paranoid after all the recent GVLv2 vs GPLv3 flamewars and
though it would be best to just add some explicit note somewhere and
couldn't find a more appropriate place than CREDITS to do so.

Feel free to drop this patch...

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