GPL License violation

[Brooks Davis]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:29:25PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> I received an email yesterday asking about the license of some code
> found in FreeBSD to turn the fan on a Dell laptop on/off, the code in
> question is shown below. I do not know exactly where in FreeBSD this
> code lies, as I do not use FreeBSD. Neither do I want or should have to
> go looking for it.
> 
> This code has been lifted verbatim out of drivers/char/i8k.c in Linux,
> which in itself was a minor modification of code in
> drivers/char/toshiba.c mdae by myself. This code dates back to January
> 1998, and was first included in Linux around 2.2.20. I am the original
> author of this code, and it is clearly and only ever licensed under the
> GPL. I must insist that it be removed forwith from FreeBSD.
> 
> JAB.

For the list.  Core has seen this and is investigating.

-- Brooks
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