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First, please excuse me if I sound a bit aggressive ...
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/home/cvs/parisc/linux/include/asm-pariscIn directory puffin.external.hp.com:/tmp/cvs-serv25289Modified Files:
pdc.h
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Helge, I very much appreciate you working on this project. Still, I think you should be a bit more communicative on what you commit, especially if there are legal (see the OSF code) or political (as I suspect might be the case for this change) issues. I lost quite a bit of time yesterday because of the code you committed (which was partly due to the parisc-linux-cvs list not working) and I would like to avoid that in the future.
Philipp Rumpf
Hi Philipp,
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First, please excuse me if I sound a bit aggressive ...
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Update of
/home/cvs/parisc/linux/include/asm-pariscIn directory puffin.external.hp.com:/tmp/cvs-serv25289
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Modified Files:
pdc.h
Log Message:added the OS_ID-patch from Hannu..
Helge, I very much appreciate you working on this project.
Thank you very much.
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Still, I think you
should be a bit more communicative on what you commit, especially if there are legal (see the OSF code) or political (as I suspect might be the case for this change) issues.
Yes, you are right ! I will talk more to you and the list before I commit something new. As you already said, there ARE legal und political issues, and because of that I already asked the list in one of my last mails, if we are allowed to use that code.
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From what I (and you too) saw, Utah CSS/CSL would be able to change that license, the only question is, if OSF is willing to change it too ?
OSF's license is _probably_ GPL-compatible as-is, though the requirement for mention of permission notice in documentation might put it afoul, and I'd want to check with a real lawyer to be sure. The Utah CSS/CSL license, as currently in place on pdc.h and such, is not at all GPL-compatible. Hopefully, we can get it changed, but in the meantime I don't think we should be barging ahead and adding these files to the tree.
I and others (self-identify if you wish) think that until the issues are cleared up, we should probably remove the OSF/CSS/CSL code from the tree. Hopefully we can get it all cleared up in short order, but until then I'm nervous about what happens a month from now when Utah says ``no, you can't relicense'' and we have to redevelop lots of the code. Ask the 4.4LITE guys, it's not fun.
Mike
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