From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: J Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: some ideas on guidelines
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190818050839.GA5519@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E76E6780-6CB6-427D-82EB-A84C95656254@jilayne.com>
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 01:55:23PM -0600, J Lovejoy wrote:
> > #4 Where the file contains a license notice that clearly states
> > the file is licensed under “GPL” with no indication of version
> > number and no other license information whatsoever —> ADD SPDX
> > identifier for GPL-2.0-or-later Rationale: This is consistent with
> > the text of the license which states, “If the Program does not
> > specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version
> > ever published by the Free Software Foundation.” Because the Linux
> > kernel is well-known to be licensed under GPL-2.0-only and use of
> > GPL-1.0 is generally sparse, it within the options given in the
> > license text to choose GPL-2.0-or-later in this case. Doing so more
> > easily enables use of such files beyond the Linux kernel.
>
> Please confirm that everyone agrees with this approach, in particular
> that we would leave the existing license notice in place and simply
> ADD the SPDX Identifier.
Sorry, I missed this one. No, I do not agree with this as the kernel
has never been "2 or later" for the main license. "2-only" should be
what is done here as that reflects the license of the kernel as a whole.
Also, I think we caught most of these files already that had this type
of marking, so I don't know if it's even an issue anymore, is it?
And no one except HURD is going to be trying to use Linux files in other
projects :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-18 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-12 5:25 some ideas on guidelines J Lovejoy
2019-06-12 10:26 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2019-06-24 0:57 ` J Lovejoy
2019-06-12 16:04 ` John Sullivan
2019-06-24 1:01 ` J Lovejoy
2019-06-13 17:44 ` Richard Fontana
2019-06-14 14:25 ` Richard Fontana
2019-06-17 4:44 ` J Lovejoy
2019-06-24 1:08 ` J Lovejoy
2019-08-17 19:55 ` J Lovejoy
2019-08-18 5:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-18 22:08 ` Richard Fontana
2019-08-19 4:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-19 5:06 ` Greg KH
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