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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
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	copyleft-next@lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:32:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YOcakETswyEN58j6@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YOcSwXkpzAFGucXM@ebb.org>

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > Any chance you wish to just change the license of these files, given that
> > you are the only one that has tried to use it for kernel code?
> 
> There is a lot of dual-licensed (GPLv2-only|{2,3}-Clause-BSD) code already in
> Linux.  Many corporate copyright holders have well documented strong reasons
> for wanting that.  (Those policy goals and the analysis behind them, I find
> problematic and sometimes outright wrong, but nonetheless it's their right to
> license their copyrights that way, and the license *is* GPLv2-only
> compatible, as is Luis'!).
> 
> I assume that you're not asking those companies to relicense to pure
> GPLv2-only.

On the contrary, I have stated in public many times to companies that
try to add dual-licensed new kernel code that they should only do so if
they provide a really good reason, and pushed back on them numerous
times.  See the mailing list archives for details if you care.

So yes, I am asking them, this is not anything new.

Let's keep it simple please, and not add new licenses for no real good
reason if at all possible.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-08 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-07 18:43 [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1 Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-07 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-08  4:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1 Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-08 19:00   ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-08  6:22 ` Greg KH
2021-07-08 14:59   ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-08 15:32     ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-07-08 16:56       ` Joe Perches
2021-07-08 17:52       ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-08 19:01         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-07-08 19:37           ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-08 20:08             ` Steven Rostedt
2021-07-08 17:08     ` Tim.Bird
2021-07-08 19:33   ` Luis Chamberlain

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