Re: [PATCH] Add max6902 RTC support

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:55:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the
best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open
source license and I have the right under that license to submit
that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in
part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in
the file; or

Yes, I think that would work, if Rafael is prepared to make that assertion.

If so, please send along a few words describing where the Compulab code
came from and some substantiation of your belief that it was appropriately
licensed. (It probably had some license words at the top of the file..)
The compulab code comes from the kernel patch the produce for their
cn-x255 board. (inside a zip file on the
http://www.compulab.co.il/x255/html/x255-developer.htm)

The original file (drivers/char/max6902.c) was GPL, which is of course
an appropriate licence:

/*
* max6902.c
*
* Driver for MAX6902 RTC
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Compulab Ltd.
*
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
*
*/

For reference, you can get the original file here:
http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/max6902.c

Regards,
Raphael Assenat

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