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Licensing:
The code must be released to us under the
- GNU General Public License. We don't insist on any kind
- of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver
- to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well
- wish to release under multiple licenses.
+ GNU General Public License. If you wish the driver to be
+ useful to other communities such as BSD you may release
+ under multiple licenses. If you choose to release under
+ licenses other than the GPL, you should include your
+ rationale for your license choices in your cover letter.
See accepted licenses at include/linux/module.h
Copyright: