Re: [gNewSense-users] BSD code

[Sam Geeraerts]

Peter and Jesse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-15-04 at 06:42 -0500, Luis Alberto Guzmán García wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I found some BSD code, and the license is not GPL, indeed it has no
> > license.
> > drivers/net/bsd_comp.c
> > But recalls the use of no GPL and the terms to redistribute, 
> > it can be seen in
> > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--net--bsd-comp-c
>
> I contacted the copyright holder for
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--isdn--i4l--isdn-bsdcomp-c
> regarding its ambiguous use of the BSD license about a week ago, but I
> haven't gotten a reply. What happens next?

The copyright notice says "The Regents of the University of California" 
(plural) so there might be more than one person you can contact?

If we could find who put the update-statement in there we could ask that 
person. The best thing I could find was 
http://lxr.linux.no/linux-old+v2.4.0/drivers/net/bsd_comp.c, which shows 
that the update was introduced in 2.4.0. Does anybody know of an easy 
web front end to the kernel revision logs so that we can find the author 
of the change?