Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 16:00:03 EST


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

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