Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:46:54 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan@buzzard.me.uk> Subject: Re: GPL License violation Message-ID: <20061008224654.GA46983@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <4528EF25.1000103@buzzard.me.uk> References: <4528EF25.1000103@buzzard.me.uk>
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--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:29:25PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > I received an email yesterday asking about the license of some code > found in FreeBSD to turn the fan on a Dell laptop on/off, the code in > question is shown below. I do not know exactly where in FreeBSD this > code lies, as I do not use FreeBSD. Neither do I want or should have to > go looking for it. >=20 > This code has been lifted verbatim out of drivers/char/i8k.c in Linux, > which in itself was a minor modification of code in > drivers/char/toshiba.c mdae by myself. This code dates back to January > 1998, and was first included in Linux around 2.2.20. I am the original > author of this code, and it is clearly and only ever licensed under the > GPL. I must insist that it be removed forwith from FreeBSD. >=20 > JAB. For the list. Core has seen this and is investigating. -- Brooks --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFKX/eXY6L6fI4GtQRAibgAJ0bMAlKLbqMHl9TLAyI1tso95xjYwCcCIhP QSCvdj7+OYwmyMp+lFYwCVM= =JdGp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--
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