From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942943AbdEYRF3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2017 13:05:29 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:42160 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1034889AbdEYRFZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2017 13:05:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 19:05:18 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Alan Cox , "Theodore Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , AKASHI Takahiro , Greg KH , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ciaran Farrell , Christopher De Nicolo , Richard Fontana , Discussion and development of copyleft-next , One Thousand Gnomes , Paul Bolle , Peter Anvin , Joe Perches 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: <20170525170518.GC3085@amd> References: <1494861494.7848.41.camel@linux.intel.com> <20170516232702.GL17314@wotan.suse.de> <20170517165502.b6jqdcmkgz6iyau2@thunk.org> <20170517174128.GQ17314@wotan.suse.de> <20170518221205.gcfs2t4ihlpx5kj6@thunk.org> <20170518230442.GC8951@wotan.suse.de> <1495193510.7848.101.camel@linux.intel.com> <20170519150920.GF8951@wotan.suse.de> <20170519175912.GL8951@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > >> Alright, this makes sense. > >> > >> As noted though there are a few "or" clauses, which upstream file > >> is a good template to use for copyleft-next ? > > > > There seems to be a few "or" clauses. For instance: > > > > a) you can pick either license [0] > > b) gpl on Linux, otherwise this other license below [1] > > > > To help uplift copyleft will go with b). > > > > [0] drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/driver.c > > [1] drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c >=20 > So that yields: >=20 > * 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 optio= n) any > * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or > * incorporated into other software packages, subject to the You have more )s there than (s. Can you get rid of the "when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or incorporated into other software packages," wording? I'm not exactly sure what it is trying to say, and if it limits the license below in any way. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlknDs4ACgkQMOfwapXb+vKo7ACgpdFa6OJa4RY2DaSvJJCTK/ob dxIAn1m4Ao9Kd5057ZRTXn06AE85WQTr =sRJ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD--