From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z2ram: MODULE_LICENSE update and neatening
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:23:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b286566394d2e65cf3977ce3a76c6bbc18cb947.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202d1246a14617e4e7a4a7b723dc92191815d134.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 18:01 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 17:11 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > This file still does not have an SPDX line. What should it be?
>
> It's old style MIT with a slight variation:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Old_Style
Yes, it's quite similar.
But ", and sell" does not exist in this variant.
So I believe its use of MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") is not correct and
that MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights") might be the best
available option.
MIT Old style:
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this
software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or
implied warranty.
License in the file:
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
* documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
* that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
* documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
* implied warranty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 14:58 simplify gendisk lookup and remove struct block_device aliases v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 01/18] block: cleanup del_gendisk a bit Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 02/18] block: open code kobj_map into in block/genhd.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 19:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-29 19:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-30 10:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-30 10:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-30 11:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-31 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 03/18] block: split block_class_lock Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 04/18] block: rework requesting modules for unclaimed devices Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 05/18] block: add an optional probe callback to major_names Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 06/18] ide: remove ide_{,un}register_region Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 07/18] swim: don't call blk_register_region Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 08/18] sd: use __register_blkdev to avoid a modprobe for an unregistered dev_t Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-30 2:13 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 09/18] brd: use __register_blkdev to allocate devices on demand Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 10/18] loop: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 11/18] md: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 12/18] ide: switch to __register_blkdev for command set probing Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 13/18] floppy: use a separate gendisk for each media format Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 14/18] amiflop: use separate gendisks for Amiga vs MS-DOS mode Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 15/18] ataflop: use a separate gendisk for each media format Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 16/18] z2ram: reindent Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 17/18] z2ram: use separate gendisk for the different modes Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-30 0:11 ` [PATCH] z2ram: MODULE_LICENSE update and neatening Joe Perches
2020-10-30 1:01 ` James Bottomley
2020-10-30 1:23 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-10-29 14:58 ` [PATCH 18/18] block: switch gendisk lookup to a simple xarray Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 7:57 ` simplify gendisk lookup and remove struct block_device aliases v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 16:17 ` Jens Axboe
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