Based on kernel version 4.16.1. Page generated on 2018-04-09 11:53 EST.
1 Copyright (c) 2009-2013 QLogic Corporation 2 QLogic Linux qlcnic NIC Driver 3 4 You may modify and redistribute the device driver code under the 5 GNU General Public License (a copy of which is attached hereto as 6 Exhibit A) published by the Free Software Foundation (version 2). 7 8 9 EXHIBIT A 10 11 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 12 Version 2, June 1991 13 14 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 15 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 16 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 17 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 18 19 Preamble 20 21 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your 22 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public 23 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free 24 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This 25 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software 26 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to 27 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by 28 the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to 29 your programs, too. 30 31 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not 32 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you 33 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for 34 this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it 35 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it 36 in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. 37 38 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid 39 anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. 40 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you 41 distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. 42 43 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether 44 gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that 45 you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the 46 source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their 47 rights. 48 49 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and 50 (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, 51 distribute and/or modify the software. 52 53 Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain 54 that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free 55 software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we 56 want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so 57 that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original 58 authors' reputations. 59 60 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software 61 patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free 62 program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the 63 program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any 64 patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. 65 66 The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and 67 modification follow. 68 69 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 70 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 71 72 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains 73 a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed 74 under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, 75 refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" 76 means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: 77 that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, 78 either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another 79 language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in 80 the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". 81 82 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not 83 covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of 84 running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program 85 is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the 86 Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). 87 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does. 88 89 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's 90 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you 91 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate 92 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the 93 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; 94 and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License 95 along with the Program. 96 97 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and 98 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. 99 100 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion 101 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and 102 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 103 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions: 104 105 a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices 106 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change. 107 108 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in 109 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any 110 part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third 111 parties under the terms of this License. 112 113 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively 114 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such 115 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an 116 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a 117 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide 118 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under 119 these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this 120 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but 121 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on 122 the Program is not required to print an announcement.) 123 124 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If 125 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, 126 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in 127 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those 128 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you 129 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based 130 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of 131 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the 132 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. 133 134 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest 135 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to 136 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or 137 collective works based on the Program. 138 139 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program 140 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of 141 a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under 142 the scope of this License. 143 144 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, 145 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of 146 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: 147 148 a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable 149 source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 150 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 151 152 b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three 153 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your 154 cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete 155 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be 156 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium 157 customarily used for software interchange; or, 158 159 c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer 160 to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is 161 allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you 162 received the program in object code or executable form with such 163 an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) 164 165 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for 166 making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source 167 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any 168 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to 169 control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a 170 special exception, the source code distributed need not include 171 anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary 172 form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the 173 operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component 174 itself accompanies the executable. 175 176 If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering 177 access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent 178 access to copy the source code from the same place counts as 179 distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not 180 compelled to copy the source along with the object code. 181 182 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program 183 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt 184 otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is 185 void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. 186 However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under 187 this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such 188 parties remain in full compliance. 189 190 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not 191 signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or 192 distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are 193 prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by 194 modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the 195 Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and 196 all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying 197 the Program or works based on it. 198 199 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the 200 Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the 201 original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to 202 these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further 203 restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. 204 You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to 205 this License. 206 207 7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent 208 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), 209 conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or 210 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not 211 excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot 212 distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this 213 License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you 214 may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent 215 license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by 216 all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then 217 the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to 218 refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. 219 220 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under 221 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to 222 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other 223 circumstances. 224 225 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any 226 patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any 227 such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the 228 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is 229 implemented by public license practices. Many people have made 230 generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed 231 through that system in reliance on consistent application of that 232 system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing 233 to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot 234 impose that choice. 235 236 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to 237 be a consequence of the rest of this License. 238 239 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in 240 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the 241 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License 242 may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding 243 those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among 244 countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates 245 the limitation as if written in the body of this License. 246 247 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions 248 of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will 249 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to 250 address new problems or concerns. 251 252 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program 253 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any 254 later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions 255 either of that version or of any later version published by the Free 256 Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of 257 this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software 258 Foundation. 259 260 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free 261 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author 262 to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free 263 Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes 264 make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals 265 of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and 266 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. 267 268 NO WARRANTY 269 270 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY 271 FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN 272 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES 273 PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED 274 OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 275 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS 276 TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE 277 PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, 278 REPAIR OR CORRECTION. 279 280 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING 281 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR 282 REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, 283 INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING 284 OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED 285 TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY 286 YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER 287 PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE 288 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.