Re: PPS GPIO polling driver license
Bill Unruh <[email protected]>
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I am probably confused. The SPDX seems to apply to the .h files associated with the driver, not the driver itself. Use of the driver by a program seems not to make the useing program a derived work, so there is no need to have a special license. Perhaps if you told us whyyou are asking and what you want to do it would make it easier. Of course I might be the only one confused. What would you like the license to say? William G. Unruh __| Canadian Institute for|____ Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy _|___ Advanced Research _|____ Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC _|_ Program in Cosmology |____ [email protected] Canada V6T 1Z1 ____|____ and Gravity ______|_ theory.physics.ubc.ca/ On Fri, 7 Jul 2023, Thangalin wrote: > [CAUTION: Non-UBC Email]Bill, the following file is a PPS driver distributed with the Linux kernel: > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pps/pps.c > > It is also released under a GPL 2.0 license: > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later > > However, being distributed with the Linux kernel, the source code falls under the "Linux with syscall exception" > clause, despite the source code comments only referring to GPL 2. > > Does anyone know how to contact Gabriel Ricalde to see if re-licensing is permissible? > > Thank you! > > -- To unsubscribe email chrony-users-request-kWFZVVI9zxvPqho9SqqRMmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-users-request-kWFZVVI9zxvPqho9SqqRMmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email [email protected]