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Harding" To: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Alexei Starovoitov , Jonathan Corbet , "David S. Miller" , Kees Cook , Andy Lutomirski , Will Drewry , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST Message-ID: <20180810014636.GJ32374@eros> References: <20180809052328.27942-1-me@tobin.cc> <20180809060734.rtqqu4sexbwzuqmm@ast-mbp> <20180809072753.GF32374@eros> <80bdc251-9f57-602f-6536-b34651684bb7@iogearbox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80bdc251-9f57-602f-6536-b34651684bb7@iogearbox.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.9.4 (2018-02-28) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 10:24:54AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On 08/09/2018 09:27 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:07:35PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 03:23:24PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > >>> > >>> Daniel and Alexei, can I please have permission to add GPLv2+ to the BPF > >>> docs? > >> > >> kernel licensing is GPLv2 without + > > > > According to process/license-rules.rst > > > > GPL-2.0+ : GNU General Public License v2.0 or later > > Not really, please see the first three paragraphs of process/license-rules.rst. > The COPYING file of the kernel says that it's 'v2' and not 'v2 or later', > unless otherwise _explicitly_ noted. Given that and given there is no other > specific note in filter.txt, it would mean it's v2-only due to that rule. Thanks for clarifying. My understanding is now; this is a case where checkpatch is too verbose and we do not actually need to add a specific license identifier to the documentation files (new or otherwise). They get an implicit GPLv2. I'll remove the licences identifiers and re-spin. thanks, Tobin.