The header is importet from linux 2.6.17.
The header does not come with a license, the author
(Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>) gave his permission to use it (note, X.org
has a copy of the header too):
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> Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> said:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:13:15PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > How does the licensing of the include files stand?
>
> Basically you cannot copyright an interface - its a fact rather
> than creative expression normally.
>
> > > Of course there's always the "type it all in again" approach
> > > where we define a functionally equivalent but completely
> > > differntly spelled API,
>
> Wouldn't even need to be differently spelled.
>
> I'm all for this kind of sharing.
>
> Alan
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A more complete mail history is provided in the README file.
Approved by: core
Thanks to: julian (he also has the OK to use the v4l2 header)