From: Constantine A. Murenin (murenincgmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 18:42:14 CDT

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On 01/09/07, Martin Schrvder <martinoneiros.de> wrote:
> 2007/9/2, Constantine A. Murenin <murenincgmail.com>:
> > If you want your modifications to be licensed differently, then you
> > would have to put a new licence on top of existing licensing text, as
> > far I as understand. This is how it's often done in OpenBSD and
> > NetBSD, IIRC.
>
> This has to agreed by all copyright holders.

You are mistaken, it has not -- as long as the licences are compatible
and the names of the copyright holders appear aligned to their correct
licence.

However, with this Atheros HAL case this is not the solution -- if the
Linux people wrap GPL around BSD code, then we won't be able to get
any changes back.

C.

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