Re: Is the PCI serial driver code GPL v2 or v3

[Theodore Tso]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > It was based upon the original serial.c by Ted T'so, but with some
> > reworking to add a separate quirks table, and quite a number of cleanups.
> > 
> > My personal position is that code I author is GPLv2, and not GPLv2 or
> > later.  So it's a question whether you consider that I'm the author
> > of the code in that file, or whether you think it's Ted's with my
> > contributions were under Ted's original terms.
> 
> Original poster wants GPLv3 version for use in grub-2. Would you be
> willing to relicense your changes in serial_8250.c, so that he can do
> that? Would Ted be willing to do that?

I'd much rather have grub-2 relicense itself to GPLv2.  :-)

    	 	     	    	      	     	- Ted
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