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 798A8CCA47F for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2022 19:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238590AbiFBTbG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:31:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:60152 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238647AbiFBTbD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:31:03 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 258ED7679; Thu, 2 Jun 2022 12:31:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=gzVpT7tOB20um8Lkk3V4vLLMTLk2RQ4leayk+zil6B0=; b=VmtYS/+PA6EtkXyQ9KDc3JlqVz XJS73NSZvA1NejDs0tTStnuzCXtiR3jsHGfvfsNzhn5jIpiNZD7wQHgGrlAyHFgm2jJAhBGUuDSfy 0Bp+iNEZNatkR+sck4YbaQeDaC6tvyk96V9ixKZ7sdPRFg/d56c8BFUVvBTUgkVq6jLP9aDxfJsKT yBEXSgn6eTUQxiFKVqqBXPifFQYQZPsr3WVPIixI70wvxIn0HAA55YxBdCvU7chuQdcrDJRCcwH6t XupPMYjGPe8Jwc/0ZRDy5l3fgYkcYENyC6wi82we+9arz8wh9gv8RbxmZQBgtHfpyBwPDedxNURFY rpEgSWbQ==; Received: from mcgrof by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nwqWw-0046MO-7D; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:30:50 +0000 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 12:30:50 -0700 From: Luis Chamberlain To: "Bird, Tim" Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Richard Fontana , "tj@kernel.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "jeyu@kernel.org" , "shuah@kernel.org" , "bvanassche@acm.org" , "dan.j.williams@intel.com" , "joe@perches.com" , "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 , "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 Message-ID: References: <20211029184500.2821444-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20211029184500.2821444-2-mcgrof@kernel.org> <87bkvo0wjd.ffs@tglx> <871qwhz2aa.ffs@tglx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: Luis Chamberlain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:11:16AM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote: > I don't think that the Linux kernel should be used for license promotion, but if it is, > then it should be used to promote GPL-v2-only. I already *used* copyleft-next on Linux on a dual licensed manner, the patches in question are about using SPDX to simpllify things and adaopt the SPDX annotations. And, to re-iterate once more, I'm using copyeft-next as that is *my* license of choice for *any* new software projects I use and I want to enable cross prolination between them. I have been doing this since I wrote CRDA many years ago. I have many reasons for using copyleft-next and I've listed many of the reasons why a free software developer would care to enable this cross polination but yet again you seem to be disregarding all that. This is similar to how 2-cluase BSD is compatible with the GPL and is used for cross polination to BSDs even though in practice a lot of that cross polination may not happen. There are practical uses here and I've been using this license for years now and I have no intention on stopping. Luis