Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] phy: keystone: serdes driver for gbe 10gbe and pcie

[Murali Karicheri]

On 10/20/2015 04:24 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2015 14:50:57 Murali Karicheri wrote:
> > Arnd, by your statement 'I don't see any code that does this' do you
> > expect a piece of code that embed the license in the binary image? If
> > so, that seems weired to me.
> >
> > Many of the drivers including this patch has the following statement in
> > the license that is additional company specific license such as BSD that
> > is applicable.
> >
> > ==== Cut and pasted from drivers/crypto/fcrypt.c =======================
> >    * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> >    *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> >    *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> > =========================================================================
> > I read this as if the source is compiled and distributed as a binary
> > either a kernel module ko file or as part of the kernel binary, this
> > term must apply. Usually this is part of documentation that goes with
> > the product AFAIK.
>
> Sorry, my fault. This is indeed the standard BSD license, and
> I misread this as having to produce the copyright statement
> from the binary itself. Please ignore whatever I said on the
> subject.
>
> 	Arnd
Thanks Arnd for the clarification.

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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone
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