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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeyu@kernel.org,
	shuah@kernel.org, bvanassche@acm.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	joe@perches.com, keescook@chromium.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	minchan@kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/6] selftests: add tests_sysfs module
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 16:37:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsl1iqg0.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yao3vtSKBKLyQY1E@kroah.com>

Greg,

On Fri, Dec 03 2021 at 16:29, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:44:57AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:

sorry for missing this thread. I came accross it now as I'm looking into
the licensing mess again.

>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>
> Again, sorry, but no, I am going to object to this license as you are
> only accessing a GPL-v2-only api.  Any other license on a file that
> interacts with that, especially for core stuff like testing the
> functionality of this code, needs to have that same license.  Sorry.

That's a bogus argument. First of all the code is dual licensed and
second we have enough code in the kernel which is licensed MIT/BSD and
happily can access the GPL-v2-only APIs.

Aside of that we have already code in the kernel which is dual licensed

     GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1

We just can't make it SPDX clean because copyleft-next-0.3.1 is not in
LICENSING.

While I agree that we want to keep the number of licenses as small as
possible, we cannot really dictate which dual licensing options a
submitter selects unless the license is GPL-2.0-only incompatible, which
copyleft-next is not.

Can we just get over this, add the license with the SPDX identifier and
move on?

Thanks,

        tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-22 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-29 18:44 [PATCH v9 0/6] test_sysfs: add new selftest for sysfs Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:44 ` [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-23 21:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-24 13:59     ` Richard Fontana
2022-05-25 17:10     ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-25 19:13     ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2022-05-25 21:50       ` J Lovejoy
2022-05-25 22:29         ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2022-05-23 21:22   ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-25 16:57     ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-25 20:51       ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-25 23:53         ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-23 21:27   ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-25 16:43     ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-25 17:05       ` Bird, Tim
2022-05-25 18:11         ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-25 19:05           ` Bird, Tim
2022-05-25 19:44             ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-05-25 22:16             ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-06-02  4:11               ` Bird, Tim
2022-06-02  6:20                 ` gregkh
2022-06-02 19:41                   ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-06-02 19:30                 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:44 ` [PATCH v9 2/6] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:44 ` [PATCH v9 3/6] selftests: add tests_sysfs module Luis Chamberlain
2021-12-03 15:29   ` Greg KH
2021-12-09  1:48     ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-12-10 21:39       ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-12-14 19:31       ` [copyleft-next] " Richard Fontana
2022-05-22 14:37     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2022-05-22 14:47       ` Greg KH
2022-05-22 15:06         ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-23 19:37           ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:44 ` [PATCH v9 4/6] kernfs: add initial failure injection support Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:44 ` [PATCH v9 5/6] test_sysfs: add support to use kernfs failure injection Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v9 6/6] kernel/module: add documentation for try_module_get() Luis Chamberlain

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