From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934170AbdJQIHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:07:18 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41364 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932846AbdJQIGt (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:06:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:06:55 +0200 From: Greg KH To: David Woodhouse Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy Message-ID: <20171017080655.GA3139@kroah.com> References: <20171016092515.GA29207@kroah.com> <1508159461.6297.134.camel@infradead.org> <20171016134632.GA30345@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20171016134632.GA30345@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 03:46:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:11:01PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 11:25 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel > > > license enforcement policy > > > > > > Here's a pull request to add a new file to the kernel's Documentation directory. > > > It adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel community > > > feels about enforcing the license of the kernel. > > > > > > The patch has been reviewed by a large number of kernel developers already, as > > > seen by their acks on the patch, and their agreement of the statement with > > > their names on it.  The location of the file was also agreed upon by the > > > Documentation maintainer, so all should be good there. > > > > > > For some background information about this statement, see this article > > > written by some of the kernel developers involved in drafting it: > > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement/ > > > and this article that answers a number of questions that came up in the > > > discussion of this statement with the kernel developer community: > > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2017/10/16/linux-kernel-community-enforcement-statement-faq/ > > > > > > If anyone has any further questions about it, please let me, and the TAB > > > members, know and we will be glad to help answer them. > > > > It's a shame you don't explicitly mention the FSF's / Conservancy's > > Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement: > > https://www.fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles > > What? I thought I did in my blog post! Ugh, you are right, it's not > there, my fault, it was in an earlier draft, I swear, sorry about that, > must have gotten lost when I turned it from text into a > markdown-formatted document. I'll go add it and push out the updated > post in a bit. Ok, in reviewing my previous drafts, and my notes for this, I see why I didn't include it in the final version, so I'll just leave my post as-is. thanks, greg k-h