From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269979AbUJTUnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:43:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270534AbUJTUnJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:43:09 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:31686 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269979AbUJTUlu (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:41:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:41:27 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Pekka Pietikainen cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout In-Reply-To: <20041019210254.GA561@ee.oulu.fi> Message-ID: References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <20041019210254.GA561@ee.oulu.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:38:03AM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On a side note, the GPL buyout previously offered has been modified. We > > will be contacting individual contributors and negotiating with each > > copyright holder for the code we wish to convert on a case by case basis. > > arch/m68k/sun3/leds.c is available (dual BSD/GPL) for the price of two beers > (I believe nobody else has touched it so it should be all mine). > > The other files of the port to that very fine architecture are largely done > by other people, so unfortunately I can't relicense those. Aarghl, a shameless m68k hacker! And I thought we all did it for The Big Fun(tm), and cannot be bought ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds