* [PATCH] doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible
@ 2019-01-22 9:34 Adam Borowski
2019-01-22 10:23 ` Greg KH
2019-02-01 23:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Adam Borowski @ 2019-01-22 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet, Greg KH, linux-doc, linux-kernel; +Cc: Adam Borowski
Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are
all fine, not just GPL.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
---
Not reformatting to fill lines, it'll semi-conflict with another patch
that's been acked but not yet pushed.
Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
index 24f5aeecee91..9b69fb08b65e 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface
is also a rough job.
Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
-are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
+are talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here,
+if your code doesn't fall
under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
<insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.) If your
driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed
--
2.20.1
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* Re: [PATCH] doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible
2019-01-22 9:34 [PATCH] doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible Adam Borowski
@ 2019-01-22 10:23 ` Greg KH
2019-02-01 23:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2019-01-22 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adam Borowski; +Cc: Jonathan Corbet, linux-doc, linux-kernel
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:34:08AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are
> all fine, not just GPL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
> ---
> Not reformatting to fill lines, it'll semi-conflict with another patch
> that's been acked but not yet pushed.
>
> Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> index 24f5aeecee91..9b69fb08b65e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface
> is also a rough job.
>
> Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we
> -are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall
> +are talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here,
> +if your code doesn't fall
> under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech
> <insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.) If your
> driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed
Nice fix:
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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* Re: [PATCH] doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible
2019-01-22 9:34 [PATCH] doc: process: GPL -> GPL-compatible Adam Borowski
2019-01-22 10:23 ` Greg KH
@ 2019-02-01 23:20 ` Jonathan Corbet
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2019-02-01 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adam Borowski; +Cc: Greg KH, linux-doc, linux-kernel
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:34:08 +0100
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are
> all fine, not just GPL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
> ---
> Not reformatting to fill lines, it'll semi-conflict with another patch
> that's been acked but not yet pushed.
It still conflicted (and the patch has indeed been pushed to docs-next).
I fixed it up and refilled the paragraph while I was at it.
Thanks,
jon
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