[Gllug] Calling Joris van Rantwijk

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Tue Nov 4 11:23:48 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Grzegorz Jaskiewicz announce to the hordes:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to track down the author of the Powerswitch module (triggers
> > an automatic shutdown when you press the power button, very useful for
> > headless boxes).  The most recent version of the code that I can find is
> > from August, 2001.  It seems to work fine with the latest 2.4.x kernels
> > but there's no license included and I'd like to a) use it in something
> > and b) find a new maintainer for the code if it's been orphaned.

> I think this code should be considered GPL, but in case of changes you 
> need to leave/add orginal authors into credits. At least that is what ppl 
> on lkml are doing.

Dangerous to make assumptions like that.
Kernel modules can be under almost any license the author wishes, and if the
license file is missing from it, it's a bad idea to jump to conclusions.


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