From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752781AbdLGKvK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 05:51:10 -0500 Received: from ul.coyote.org ([198.50.187.229]:57160 "EHLO ul.coyote.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752291AbdLGKvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2017 05:51:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:51:01 +0100 From: Jonas Oberg To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Kate Stewart , Philippe Ombredanne , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Joe Perches , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Charlemagne Lasse , Carmen Bianca Bakker Subject: Re: [patch V4 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Message-ID: <20171207105101.GA8549@silk.coyote.org> References: <20171204211927.673291734@linutronix.de> <20171204212120.575886112@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20171204212120.575886112@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the LICENSES directory. It was > copied directly from the COPYING file in the kernel source tree as it > differs from the public available version of the license in various places > including the FSF. > > Philippe did some research on the GPL2.0 history: > > There is NO trustworthy version of an official GPL 2.0 text: the FSF > official texts are all fubar (if only in small and subtle ways). The FSF > texts should be authoritative, but then which one? They published more > GPL 2.0 versions than most. So we would be hard pressed to blame SPDX or > the OSI for having their own minor variant. > > Then in digging further, I found the ONE true original GPL with a file > time stamp on June 2 1991, 01:50 (AM?, PM? unknown time zone?) ! in an > old GCC archive. > > For the posterity and everyone's enjoyment I have built a git history > of GPL 2.0 Mark1 to Mark6 > > See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/commits/master/COPYING > > I also added a shorter history of the Linux COPYING text. The first > version in Linus's git tree is based on the very fine and well tuned GPL > 2 Mark4, the first fully Y2K compliant version of the GPL 2, as you can > see from the diffs with the former Mark3: that was dangerously stuck in > the last century. > > The current version in is based on a rare GPL 2.0 Mark5.1 aka "Franklin > St", that I do not have in my history yet and spells "Franklin St." > rather than "Franklin Street." Therefore there is likely another GPL 2.0 > version between Mark4 and Mark5 that I have yet to find and may not have > been caught by the archive.org spiders. Here help and patches welcomed: > this is likely an important missing link. > > Further information about this archaelogical research; > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOFm3uEzRMf261+O-Nm+9HDoEn9RbFjH=5J9i1C2GgMUg2G4LA@mail.gmail.com > > Add the required tags for reference and tooling. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg -- Jonas Öberg Executive Director FSFE e.V. - keeping the power of technology in your hands. Your support enables our work, please join us today http://fsfe.org/join