Linux kernel complete licence check, Q.15
linux/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
/*
* Implements an IPX socket layer.
*
* This code is derived from work by
* Ross Biro : Writing the original IP stack
* Fred Van Kempen : Tidying up the TCP/IP
*
* Many thanks go to Keith Baker, Institute For Industrial Information
* Technology Ltd, Swansea University for allowing me to work on this
* in my own time even though it was in some ways related to
commercial
* work I am currently employed to do there.
*
* All the material in this file is subject to the Gnu license
version 2.
* Neither Alan Cox nor the Swansea University Computer Society admit
* liability nor provide warranty for any of this software. This
material
* is provided as is and at no charge.
*
* Revision 0.21: Uses the new generic socket option code.
...
* Revision 049: SPX support dropped, see comment in ipx_create
*
* Protect the module by a MOD_INC_USE_COUNT/MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT
* pair. Also, now usage count is managed this way
* -Count one if the auto_interface mode is on
* -Count one per configured interface
*
* Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. <greg@caldera.com>
* Neither Greg Page nor Caldera, Inc. admit liability nor provide
* warranty for any of this software. This material is provided
* "AS-IS" and at no charge.
*/
This last sentence cause me some trouble. It seems so me that
caldera provide us some code at no charge (to use), but no
right to modify/distribute. Anyway, the top we read:
"All the material in this file is subject to the Gnu license version 2."
Should I take it as GPLv2?
ciao
giacomo
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