From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932861AbcHJBZq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 21:25:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59334 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932794AbcHJBZd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2016 21:25:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:25:30 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, pebolle@tiscali.nl, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, christopher.denicolo@suse.com, hpa@zytor.com, Rusty Russell , Greg KH , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , ciaran.farrell@suse.com, Discussion and development of copyleft-next Subject: Re: [copyleft-next] Re: Kernel modules under new copyleft licence : (was Re: [PATCH v2] module.h: add copyleft-next >= 0.3.1 as GPL compatible) Message-ID: <20160810012530.GI3296@wotan.suse.de> References: <1465929311-13509-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org> <1467327207-14916-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20160701154258.GA32760@kroah.com> <87y44zhbiu.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20160719223851.GA2783@kroah.com> <20160722000747.GD5537@wotan.suse.de> <1470773075.12035.12.camel@linux.intel.com> <20160809201448.GE3296@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160809201448.GE3296@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:14:48PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > (Going back to pick up the specific licence thread) > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to see Richard do so as well. > > > With Richard that's 3 attorneys now. > > > > None of whom I believe represent the Linux project or foundation ? > > > > Linus has to make this call, nobody else and he is probablygoing to go > > ape if you try and sneak another licence into the kernel without > > flagging it up with him clearly first. You need to discuss it with > > Linus up front. > > To be clear I first poked the Linux Foundation about this, I went through the > process recommended by them. If there is a process out of place its by no > means an issue on my end. > > > > I'll proceed to submit some code with this license as you request, > > > Rusty.  Its > > > however not for modules yet so I would not make use of the > > > MODULE_LICENSE("copyleft-next") tag yet, however the license will be > > > on top of > > > a header. > > > > We have the GPL/extra rights tag for this already. Also when it's > > merged with the kernel we'd I'm sure pick the derivative work under the > > GPL option so we'd only need the GPL tag. > > > > There are specific reasons for the extra rights language - it avoids > > games like MODULE_LICENSE("BSD") and then giving people just a binary > > and it being counted as GPL compliant activity. The same problem exists > > in your licence post sunset. That single tag is also why we don't have > > to list BSD, MIT, and every variant thereof in the table which saves us > > so much pain. If you must have the actual text in the .ko file then put > > it in your MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). > > I'm personally fine with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") being used with copyleft-next code > and find it sensible. Adding Linus now, for some reason I think you added him with an incorrect domain name, Alan. Luis