Re: license of string_helpers module

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 12:55:47 EST


On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:43 +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> Hello, James.
>
> Could you please share what is the License applied to the
> lib/string_helpers.c module which you wrote on 2008?

Um, it's in the kernel, so it follows the licence of the COPYING file,
so GPLv2 only.

> Shall we update top of the file to be clear on it in future?

There's no need to waste space with individual licences, that's why we
have a COPYING file.

James

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