From: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@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>,
xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>,
Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V4 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 22:00:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOFm3uHGoZR-F3hu-Sh3ZVY5+WLXHb5mf-AG_TEDyw5TWpKv_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171205073620.GB15358@kroah.com>
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the LICENSES directory. It was
>> copied directly from the COPYING file in the kernel source tree as it
>> differs from the public available version of the license in various places
>> including the FSF.
>>
>> Philippe did some research on the GPL2.0 history:
>>
>> There is NO trustworthy version of an official GPL 2.0 text: the FSF
>> official texts are all fubar (if only in small and subtle ways). The FSF
>> texts should be authoritative, but then which one? They published more
>> GPL 2.0 versions than most. So we would be hard pressed to blame SPDX or
>> the OSI for having their own minor variant.
>>
>> Then in digging further, I found the ONE true original GPL with a file
>> time stamp on June 2 1991, 01:50 (AM?, PM? unknown time zone?) ! in an
>> old GCC archive.
>>
>> For the posterity and everyone's enjoyment I have built a git history
>> of GPL 2.0 Mark1 to Mark6
>>
>> See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/commits/master/COPYING
>>
>> I also added a shorter history of the Linux COPYING text. The first
>> version in Linus's git tree is based on the very fine and well tuned GPL
>> 2 Mark4, the first fully Y2K compliant version of the GPL 2, as you can
>> see from the diffs with the former Mark3: that was dangerously stuck in
>> the last century.
>>
>> The current version in is based on a rare GPL 2.0 Mark5.1 aka "Franklin
>> St", that I do not have in my history yet and spells "Franklin St."
>> rather than "Franklin Street." Therefore there is likely another GPL 2.0
>> version between Mark4 and Mark5 that I have yet to find and may not have
>> been caught by the archive.org spiders. Here help and patches welcomed:
>> this is likely an important missing link.
>>
>> Further information about this archaelogical research;
>>
>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOFm3uEzRMf261+O-Nm+9HDoEn9RbFjH=5J9i1C2GgMUg2G4LA@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> Add the required tags for reference and tooling.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thomas you have my cheerful review, this digging was quite fun in fact
and I am not half proud of this ending in the kernel doc: thank you.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-04 21:19 [patch V4 00/11] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-05 6:50 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-12-08 15:29 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-09 11:03 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-11 21:58 ` Jonathan Corbet
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-05 7:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-06 21:00 ` Philippe Ombredanne [this message]
2017-12-07 10:51 ` Jonas Oberg
2017-12-08 3:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 03/11] LICENSES: Add the LGPL " Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 04/11] LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 05/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 06/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 07/11] LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 08/11] LICENSES: Add the MIT license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 09/11] LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 10/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-04 21:19 ` [patch V4 11/11] LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-09 11:09 ` [patch V4 00/11] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Philippe Ombredanne
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