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From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@linaro.org>,
	Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:31:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171120153105.38d2b892@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFz06uWZwjdgod4wd=dCY3wbU+4SdbhgNwsNzMFqUn2SiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> You may be confusing things because of a newer version.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse
> <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General Public"  
> 
> That's just FSF revisionism.
> 
> It used to be called "Library" over "Lesser", in the original GPL2.
> 
> I suspect your other issues are similar "there's been different
> versions over time" things. the address being one of them.
> 
> We've actually taken some of the FSF updates over the years ("19yy" ->
> "<year>", and the address change) but the main COPYING file still
> calls the LGPL the "GNU Library General Public License".
> 
> I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic
> internal FSF politics that tried to change history.

Do we have any files which had the later LGPL text attached to them - if
so then they should be keeping that header.

Which raises another question. If there are multiple GPL 2.0 texts which
are *supposedly* legally identical but this has never been tested in law
-that implies SPDX is wrong in tagging them identically in case they turn
out not to be...

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-16 18:33 [patch V2 00/11] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 19:44   ` Rob Herring
2017-11-16 20:57   ` [patch V3 " Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-17  9:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 22:38       ` Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-17 10:00   ` [patch V4 " Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 11:58     ` Philippe Ombredanne
     [not found]     ` <CAG_66ZRPXxodLw=eeTRtXuRGfvmonVNknzNmMuNMVooJgd1Uxw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-17 13:16       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 17:06     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-17 18:11       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 18:39         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-22 11:12           ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-22 11:51             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-22 13:23               ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-11-22 13:35                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-22 13:48               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-25 19:04                 ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-25 19:11                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-25 19:17                     ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-25 19:30                       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-25 19:53                         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-11-25 20:30                           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-25 18:51       ` Pavel Machek
2017-11-25 23:41         ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-17 19:02     ` Jonas Oberg
2017-12-14 16:25     ` Joe Perches
2017-12-14 16:29       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-05 13:05     ` [V4, " Alexandre Belloni
2018-01-05 18:55       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-05 22:48       ` Frank Rowand
2018-01-05 23:05         ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-11-17 10:07   ` [patch V2 " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-17 10:17   ` Carmen Bianca Bakker
2017-11-17 10:21     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-18 19:03   ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-18 19:05     ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-18 19:13     ` Jonas Oberg
2017-11-18 19:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-18 20:41       ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-19  8:50         ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-20 15:31       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2017-11-20 15:42         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-11-21  8:27         ` Jonas Oberg
2017-11-21 13:57         ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-21 17:55           ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-20  9:42     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 03/11] LICENSES: Add the LGPL " Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 04/11] LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 05/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 06/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 07/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 08/11] LICENSES: Add the MIT license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 09/11] LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 21:00   ` [patch V3 " Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-17 10:07   ` [patch V2 " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 10/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 18:33 ` [patch V2 11/11] LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 10:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 19:25 ` [patch V2 00/11] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Thomas Gleixner

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