From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967307AbdEYUOr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2017 16:14:47 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:46232 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965630AbdEYUOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2017 16:14:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 22:14:39 +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: <20170525201439.GA20750@amd> References: <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> <20170525170518.GC3085@amd> <20170525173131.GX8951@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170525173131.GX8951@wotan.suse.de> 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 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > > > So that yields: > > >=20 > > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modi= fy 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 o= ption) any > > > * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kern= el or > > > * incorporated into other software packages, subject to the > >=20 > > You have more )s there than (s. >=20 > Thanks just removed that pesky ) >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I had to pick an "or language" used already upstream and which folks were= OK > with, this was one and I went with it. I prefer it as it makes it clear t= he > intent is outside of Linux I wish copyleft-next to apply. Yes, the intent is clear. What is not clear is if the intent is legally binding. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlknOy8ACgkQMOfwapXb+vIcSQCfalgEnOOlWh1eio8ywVc6l8cF DYEAnRsAv/RSKe05FUppa12DzVMG10WT =THus -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--