From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3873FC4332F for ; Mon, 23 May 2022 21:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231624AbiEWVWk (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2022 17:22:40 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40186 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229555AbiEWVWi (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2022 17:22:38 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:12e:550::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17B96939A2; Mon, 23 May 2022 14:22:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1653340956; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=59DfhzYe72S2hFk3ZpzXUpbAoT1XkzoxJ1ayQv+aGxs=; b=XRNrsXdvZ/svutzu4W0qC2B5F0dKf/1VcNM0aY/b6p1XFSu2lbe7mnf/2JEF9hSQityyKe nCc3JaO0JHTdrddoXESum0RZA4aNm2qIr2KPmJhEilgnkVkuhSVgv/ZeaHD36/I91s0fnF YkB4WlZvqMeJCG1O9f2u8CZD7e++8fsYEUewtwYWMIgpXiXR3ztUcIqbbhSmIZuFrFv4B/ 6navIvFI06g6Kc7Icv5SwU+vKIS4MP1xncmslyuAGBbr++XXoj/nYrCU9gThBt3CG10xDn baM8N7KA0miLmNYkGGewvwt3y0l0FOPsdd7CNjhTOpqs6F9h+iG1NvYPd59W9g== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1653340956; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=59DfhzYe72S2hFk3ZpzXUpbAoT1XkzoxJ1ayQv+aGxs=; b=GzuEXz4lAMUxV3PWK9SCtm1vnrVCmYCYuy16Y+0kilnaAoyOxElbE6W5Amp68QChjt2Vsm UIWuDnKIp8lFJ7Cw== To: Luis Chamberlain , tj@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeyu@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org Cc: bvanassche@acm.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, joe@perches.com, mcgrof@kernel.org, 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, Goldwyn Rodrigues , Kuno Woudt , Richard Fontana , copyleft-next@lists.fedorahosted.org, Ciaran Farrell , Christopher De Nicolo , Christoph Hellwig , Jonathan Corbet , Thorsten Leemhuis Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license In-Reply-To: <20211029184500.2821444-2-mcgrof@kernel.org> References: <20211029184500.2821444-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20211029184500.2821444-2-mcgrof@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 23:22:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87ee0k0wrn.ffs@tglx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 29 2021 at 11:44, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > --- /dev/null > +++ b/LICENSES/dual/copyleft-next-0.3.1 > @@ -0,0 +1,237 @@ > +Valid-License-Identifier: copyleft-next-0.3.1 > +SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/copyleft-next-0.3.1 > +Usage-Guide: > + This license can be used in code, it has been found to be GPLv2 compatible > + by attorneys at Redhat and SUSE, however to air on the side of caution, air ? > + it's best to only use it together with a GPL2 compatible license using "OR". This paragraph is not really understandable for Joe Developer. copyleft-next-0.3.1 is explicitly compatible with GPLv2 (or later) and can therefore be used for kernel code. Though the best and recommended practice is to express this in the SPDX license identifier by licensing the code under both licenses expressed by the OR operator. Hmm? > + To use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license put the following SPDX tag/value > + pair into a comment according to the placement guidelines in the > + licensing rules documentation: > + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR copyleft-next-0.3.1 > + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR copyleft-next 0.3.1 > + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR copyleft-next-0.3.1 > + SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1 Please don't propagate the GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ tags. They are outdated (still valid) in the SPDX spec, which reminds me that I should update the relevant documentation... Thanks, tglx