Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 8/12] LED: Add LED device support for ixp4xxdevices]

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:20 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("John Bowler <jbowler@xxxxxxx>");
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IXP4XX GPIO LED driver");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("MIT");
> 
> MIT license is unusual.  There's one other file in the kernel which uses it
> and that's down in MTD where nobody dares look.
> 
> I don't know whether MIT is GPL-compatible-for-kernel-purposes or not.  Help.

would be really nice if the author would at least dual license it under
the GPL as well (and thus also granting the patent rights if any); in
which case it's a clear "GPL when used with linux, but optionally MIT if
used outside linux")



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