From: <Tim.Bird@sony.com>
To: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 03/12] selftests: add tests_sysfs module
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 16:57:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BYAPR13MB2503180449E0863CFD4672F5FDAF9@BYAPR13MB2503.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 8:17 AM
> To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> Cc: tj@kernel.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org; minchan@kernel.org; jeyu@kernel.org; shuah@kernel.org; bvanassche@acm.org;
> dan.j.williams@intel.com; joe@perches.com; tglx@linutronix.de; keescook@chromium.org; rostedt@goodmis.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
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/12] selftests: add tests_sysfs module
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 09:37:56AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/test_sysfs.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,921 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
> > +/*
> > + * sysfs test driver
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2021 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> > + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> > + * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
> > + * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
> > + * when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
> > + * license:
This is a very strange license grant, which I'm not sure is covered by any
current SPDX syntax.
" when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or when incorporated into
other software packages, subject to the following license:"
Why would we care about the license used when the code is used in a non-kernel
project? If it is desired for the code to be available outside the kernel under a
different license, then surely the easiest thing is to make it available separately
under that license. I'm not sure why the kernel needs to carry this license for
non-kernel use of the code.
I would recommend giving this a GPLv2 SPDX header, and maybe in the comment
at the top of the file put a reference to a git repository where the code can be
obtained under a different license.
Just my 2 cents.
-- Tim
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> > + * under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
> > + * at http://copyleft-next.org/.
>
> Independant of the fact that I don't like sysfs code attempting to be
> accessed in the kernel with licenses other than GPLv2, you do not need
> the license "boilerplate" text at all in files. That's what the SPDX
> line is for.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-05 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 16:37 [PATCH v8 00/12] syfs: generic deadlock fix with module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <202110050907.35FBD2A1@keescook>
[not found] ` <YWR2ZrtzChamY1y4@bombadil.infradead.org>
2021-10-11 17:57 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 16:11 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] selftests: add tests_sysfs module Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 14:16 ` Greg KH
2021-10-05 16:57 ` Tim.Bird [this message]
2021-10-11 17:40 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-11 17:38 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-07 14:23 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-11 19:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
[not found] ` <202110050912.3DF681ED@keescook>
2021-10-11 19:03 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] kernfs: add initial failure injection support Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:47 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 20:44 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] test_sysfs: add support to use kernfs failure injection Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:51 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 20:56 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:37 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] kernel/module: add documentation for try_module_get() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:58 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 21:16 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] fs/kernfs/symlink.c: replace S_IRWXUGO with 0777 on kernfs_create_link() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 19:59 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] fs/sysfs/dir.c: replace S_IRWXU|S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO with 0755 sysfs_create_dir_ns() Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 16:05 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] sysfs: fix deadlock race with module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 9:24 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-11 21:25 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-12 0:20 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-12 21:18 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 1:07 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-13 12:35 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 15:04 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-13 21:16 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:50 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 22:26 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-13 12:41 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] test_sysfs: enable deadlock tests by default Luis Chamberlain
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] zram: fix crashes with cpu hotplug multistate Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:55 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 18:27 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-14 1:55 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-14 2:11 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-14 20:24 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-14 23:52 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-15 0:22 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-15 8:36 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-15 8:52 ` Greg KH
2021-10-15 17:31 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-16 11:28 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-18 19:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 2:34 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 6:23 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-19 9:23 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 6:43 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 7:49 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 8:19 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 8:28 ` Greg KH
2021-10-25 9:58 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-20 10:09 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-26 8:48 ` Petr Mladek
2021-10-26 15:37 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-26 17:01 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-27 11:57 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-10-27 14:27 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-11-02 15:24 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 16:25 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-11-03 0:01 ` Ming Lei
2021-11-03 12:44 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-27 11:42 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-11-02 14:15 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 14:51 ` Petr Mladek
2021-11-02 15:17 ` Ming Lei
2021-11-02 14:56 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 15:28 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:29 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 19:36 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-20 1:15 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-20 15:48 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-21 0:39 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-21 17:18 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-22 0:05 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 15:50 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:25 ` Greg KH
2021-10-19 16:30 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 17:28 ` Greg KH
2021-10-19 19:46 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-19 16:39 ` Ming Lei
2021-10-19 19:38 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-20 0:55 ` Ming Lei
2021-09-27 16:38 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] zram: use ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS to fix sysfs deadlock module removal Luis Chamberlain
2021-10-05 20:57 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-11 18:28 ` Luis Chamberlain
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