From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161283AbWASTFU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:05:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161286AbWASTFU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:05:20 -0500 Received: from adsl-216-102-214-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.214.42]:59912 "EHLO cynthia.pants.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161283AbWASTFS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:05:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:05:17 -0800 From: Brad Boyer To: Greg KH Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: License oddity in some m68k files Message-ID: <20060119190517.GA4472@pants.nu> References: <20060119180947.GA25001@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060119180947.GA25001@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:09:47AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Any ideas of how they made it into our tree? And any chance of > correcting them to be the correct license or removing them? This is pretty old stuff. The files in arch/m68k/fpsp040/ implement all the extra 68881/68882 instructions that they left out of the FPU that is builtin on the 68040. This is the official Motorola provided implementation of them, and they seem to be widely available. I have no idea on the license issues, however. One thing to note is that there is a README file in that directory that appears to be part of the original distribution of this code from Motorola with some license info. Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com