From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210708193746.7e2dbpgs33cl73wx@garbanzo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210708150158.08ba548c@gandalf.local.home>
On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 03:01:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:52:54 -0700
> "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org> wrote:
>
> > Joe Perches wrote:
> > >>> You can ask but it's the submitter's choice to license their code however
> > >>> they desire.
> >
> > … to which I'd add, as long as the license is GPLv2-only-compatible, which of
> > course (GPLv2-only|copyleft-next) is.
>
> I agree with Joe on this, but I have to ask; What happens when someone
> makes a change to this file? The default kernel license is GPL-v2. Does this
> change automatically become the same as the file itself, or is the new
> change under the dual license?
>
> I've made changes to code that had a dual license that wasn't GPL
> compatible, and the company involved asked me to sign off on the other
> license (which I did).
The Signed-off-by tag implies you are making a contribution under the
same license as the license file states. The more people are aware of
this fact, the better, and its then why we made DCO a public thing and
now other projects embrace it.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-08 19:37 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
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 [this message]
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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