heci: a new driver for review and testing

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Oct 15 10:41:07 UTC 2009


Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> writes:
> BTW, can / may I drop "alternatively GPL" wording from License block
> of the files I borrowed from Intel?  I.e. can a dual BSD+GPL licensed
> file be turned into BSD-only?

No.  Why would you want to?

> Some additional info.  The files contain only some data structure /
> constants definitions.  I guess those are not copyrightable at all?

That's debatable.  It is probably safe to assume that they aren't *if*
they only describe the interface to another piece of software or to the
hardware, but if they represent internal data structures used by the
Linux driver, they are definitely copyrightable.

DES
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