From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 10:41:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6AA1065672 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955268FC1D for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946386D41B; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:25:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6267E84503; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:25:40 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Andriy Gapon References: <4AD6067E.2010503@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:25:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4AD6067E.2010503@icyb.net.ua> (Andriy Gapon's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:12:30 +0300") Message-ID: <86iqehx8bf.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:41:07 -0000 Andriy Gapon 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no