From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
torvalds@linux.intel.com, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ciaran.farrell@suse.com, christopher.denicolo@suse.com,
fontana@sharpeleven.org, copyleft-next@lists.fedorahosted.org,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel modules under new copyleft licence : (was Re: [PATCH v2] module.h: add copyleft-next >= 0.3.1 as GPL compatible)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:58:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyhxcvD+q7tp+-yrSFDKfR0mOHgyEAe=f_94aKLsOu0Og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160809201448.GE3296@wotan.suse.de>
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> I'm personally fine with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") being used with copyleft-next code
> and find it sensible.
I'd rather have the kernel license be as clear as possible, so I'd
tend to prefer that
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
and then if you want to dual-license it, just put something like "or,
at your option, copyleft-next" in the comment at the top.
That makes it clear that as far as the kernel is concerned, it's
GPLv2, but if somebody finds it useful for other projects, they can
choose to take that file under copyleft-next (whatever version that
would be..).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-10 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-14 18:35 [PATCH] module.h: add copyleft-next >= 0.3.1 as GPL compatible Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 19:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 19:46 ` Greg KH
2016-06-29 20:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-29 21:43 ` Paul Bolle
2016-06-29 22:01 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 22:45 ` Paul Bolle
2016-06-29 23:01 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 23:22 ` Paul Bolle
2016-06-29 23:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-29 20:49 ` Paul Bolle
2016-06-30 22:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-06-30 22:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-01 15:42 ` Greg KH
2016-07-18 3:26 ` Rusty Russell
2016-07-19 22:38 ` Greg KH
2016-07-19 23:29 ` Richard Fontana
2016-07-21 6:04 ` Rusty Russell
2016-07-22 0:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-09 20:04 ` Kernel modules under new copyleft licence : (was Re: [PATCH v2] module.h: add copyleft-next >= 0.3.1 as GPL compatible) Alan Cox
2016-08-09 20:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-10 1:25 ` [copyleft-next] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-10 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-05-11 18:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-15 15:18 ` Alan Cox
2017-05-16 23:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-17 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2017-05-17 16:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-05-17 17:41 ` [copyleft-next] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-18 22:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-05-18 23:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-18 23:08 ` David Lang
2017-05-18 23:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-19 15:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-05-19 11:31 ` Alan Cox
2017-05-19 15:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-19 17:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-19 18:04 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-19 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2017-05-25 17:05 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-25 17:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-25 20:14 ` Pavel Machek
2017-05-25 22:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-09 21:46 ` Richard Fontana
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