Re: Agere Hermes source-code: copyright situation

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 16:04:12 EST


On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:40:29PM +0100, TJ wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:13 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > And it is not GPL'ed, of course. I attach E-Mail I received a while
> > back with answere from Agere legal department.
>
> I'm attaching the original email I sent to Agere and their response for
> the record, hoping it helps clarify the legal position.

Very nice, thanks for forwarding this on.

As the license is BSD, that means we can place it in the kernel tree.
Do you all mind if I add it to the drivers/staging/ directory so you can
work on cleaning it up within the main kernel tree infrastructure?

thanks,

greg k-h
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