From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:44:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471301087.2428.48.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVmDhPC6BMu4_xTanSFZBKeW9V6A4SeQ4qxnpVod-eLbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 21:51 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2016 7:09 PM, "James Bottomley" <
> James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > table development go under copyleft-next, Rusty recently asked
> > > > for code to go in prior to the license tag being added denoting
> > > > this license as GPL-compatible [3] -- I had noted in the patch
> > > > submission which annotated copyleft-next's compatibility to
> > > > GPLv2 that copyleft-next is the license of choice for ongoing
> > > > kernel development on my end [4]. If this is objectionable I'm
> > > > happy to change it to GPLv2 however I'd like a reason provided
> > > > as I've gone through all possible channels to ensure this is
> > > > kosher, including vetting by 3 attorneys now, 2 at SUSE.
> > >
> > > You don't need a new tag, you can use "GPL" or "GPL and
> > > additional rights". In fact you don't want any other tag because
> > > when combined with the kernel it is GPLv2 anyway because the
> > > only way the two are fully compatible is for the kernel community
> > > to license the derived work under the GPL.
> >
> > This is the module tag ... it says what licence the module is
> > under, not the licence for the module combined with the kernel,
> > which is always GPLv2 because the stricter licence rules.
>
> Then why isn't "BSD" in the license_is_gpl_compatible list?
[Sorry about this, the list seems to have stopped sending me copies of
stuff I'm on the to: line for; not sure why. Anyway, having fished
this copy out of my trash:]
It is, here specifically:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ModifiedBSD
James
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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
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"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
korea.drzix@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, jgross@suse.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
keescook@chromium.org, ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, hpa@zytor.com,
arnd@arndb.de, davem@davemloft.net,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, jkosina@suse.cz,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, realmz6@gmail.com,
fontana@sharpeleven.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
ananth@in.ibm.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.c
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:44:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471301087.2428.48.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVmDhPC6BMu4_xTanSFZBKeW9V6A4SeQ4qxnpVod-eLbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 21:51 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2016 7:09 PM, "James Bottomley" <
> James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > table development go under copyleft-next, Rusty recently asked
> > > > for code to go in prior to the license tag being added denoting
> > > > this license as GPL-compatible [3] -- I had noted in the patch
> > > > submission which annotated copyleft-next's compatibility to
> > > > GPLv2 that copyleft-next is the license of choice for ongoing
> > > > kernel development on my end [4]. If this is objectionable I'm
> > > > happy to change it to GPLv2 however I'd like a reason provided
> > > > as I've gone through all possible channels to ensure this is
> > > > kosher, including vetting by 3 attorneys now, 2 at SUSE.
> > >
> > > You don't need a new tag, you can use "GPL" or "GPL and
> > > additional rights". In fact you don't want any other tag because
> > > when combined with the kernel it is GPLv2 anyway because the
> > > only way the two are fully compatible is for the kernel community
> > > to license the derived work under the GPL.
> >
> > This is the module tag ... it says what licence the module is
> > under, not the licence for the module combined with the kernel,
> > which is always GPLv2 because the stricter licence rules.
>
> Then why isn't "BSD" in the license_is_gpl_compatible list?
[Sorry about this, the list seems to have stopped sending me copies of
stuff I'm on the to: line for; not sure why. Anyway, having fished
this copy out of my trash:]
It is, here specifically:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ModifiedBSD
James
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To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
korea.drzix@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, jgross@suse.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
keescook@chromium.org, ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
jpoimboe@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, hpa@zytor.com,
arnd@arndb.de, davem@davemloft.net,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, jkosina@suse.cz,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, realmz6@gmail.com,
fontana@sharpeleven.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
ananth@in.ibm.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
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mhiramat@kernel.org, ciaran.farrell@suse.com, bp@alien8.de,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, alan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:44:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471301087.2428.48.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVmDhPC6BMu4_xTanSFZBKeW9V6A4SeQ4qxnpVod-eLbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 21:51 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2016 7:09 PM, "James Bottomley" <
> James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 15:24 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > table development go under copyleft-next, Rusty recently asked
> > > > for code to go in prior to the license tag being added denoting
> > > > this license as GPL-compatible [3] -- I had noted in the patch
> > > > submission which annotated copyleft-next's compatibility to
> > > > GPLv2 that copyleft-next is the license of choice for ongoing
> > > > kernel development on my end [4]. If this is objectionable I'm
> > > > happy to change it to GPLv2 however I'd like a reason provided
> > > > as I've gone through all possible channels to ensure this is
> > > > kosher, including vetting by 3 attorneys now, 2 at SUSE.
> > >
> > > You don't need a new tag, you can use "GPL" or "GPL and
> > > additional rights". In fact you don't want any other tag because
> > > when combined with the kernel it is GPLv2 anyway because the
> > > only way the two are fully compatible is for the kernel community
> > > to license the derived work under the GPL.
> >
> > This is the module tag ... it says what licence the module is
> > under, not the licence for the module combined with the kernel,
> > which is always GPLv2 because the stricter licence rules.
>
> Then why isn't "BSD" in the license_is_gpl_compatible list?
[Sorry about this, the list seems to have stopped sending me copies of
stuff I'm on the to: line for; not sure why. Anyway, having fished
this copy out of my trash:]
It is, here specifically:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ModifiedBSD
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-15 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 176+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-22 21:24 [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 01/13] x86: remove LTO_REFERENCE_INITCALL() Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 02/13] dell-smo8800: include uaccess.h Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:31 ` Pali Rohár
2016-07-22 21:31 ` Pali Rohár
2016-07-22 21:31 ` Pali Rohár
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 03/13] scripts/module-common.lds: enable generation Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 04/13] sections.h: guard against asm and linker script Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 05/13] sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:37 ` James Hogan
2016-07-22 21:37 ` James Hogan
2016-07-22 21:37 ` James Hogan
2016-07-22 21:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-29 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 06/13] ranges.h: add helpers to build and identify Linux section ranges Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 07/13] tables.h: add linker table support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-25 15:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-27 23:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 23:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 23:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-28 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-07-28 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-07-28 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-07-28 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-07-28 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-07-29 10:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-29 10:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-07-29 10:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-08 15:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-08 15:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-08 15:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-09 3:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-09 3:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-09 3:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 3:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 3:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 3:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 5:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 5:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 5:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 6:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 6:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 6:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 7:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 7:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 7:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 15:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 15:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 15:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 15:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 15:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 15:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 17:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 17:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 17:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-12 18:16 ` Kees Cook
2016-08-12 20:23 ` Greg KH
2016-08-12 20:23 ` Greg KH
2016-08-12 20:23 ` Greg KH
2016-08-12 20:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-12 20:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-12 20:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-12 22:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 22:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12 22:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-13 10:46 ` Greg KH
2016-08-13 10:46 ` Greg KH
2016-08-13 10:46 ` Greg KH
2016-08-13 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-13 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-13 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 08/13] firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 09/13] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 10/13] jump_label: port __jump_table to linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-22 21:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-22 21:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-22 22:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 22:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 22:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 22:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-22 22:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-22 22:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-07-27 22:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 11/13] dynamic_debug: port to use " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 12/13] kprobes: port .kprobes.text to section range Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-25 15:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-27 22:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` [RFC v3 13/13] kprobes: port blacklist kprobes to linker table Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-22 21:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-25 15:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 15:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-27 23:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 23:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 23:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-25 13:32 ` [RFC v3 00/13] linux: generalize sections, ranges and linker tables Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 13:32 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 13:32 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-07-25 13:55 ` Richard Fontana
2016-07-25 13:55 ` Richard Fontana
2016-07-25 13:55 ` Richard Fontana
2016-07-27 22:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-27 22:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-09 14:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-09 14:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-09 14:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-09 16:09 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-09 16:09 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-09 16:09 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-10 4:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-10 4:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-15 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2016-08-15 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2016-08-15 21:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-15 21:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-15 21:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-15 22:44 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2016-08-15 22:44 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-15 22:44 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-10 17:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-10 17:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-10 17:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-09 16:48 ` Richard Fontana
2016-08-09 16:48 ` Richard Fontana
2016-08-09 16:48 ` Richard Fontana
2016-08-09 16:52 ` Richard Fontana
2016-08-09 16:52 ` Richard Fontana
2016-08-09 16:52 ` Richard Fontana
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