From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8B6C07E96 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A59E61464 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229605AbhGHQ7E (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:59:04 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0165.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.165]:46402 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229469AbhGHQ7D (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2021 12:59:03 -0400 Received: from omf18.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E3F1846F773; Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf18.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 332772EBFC6; Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1 From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH , "Bradley M. Kuhn" Cc: Luis Chamberlain , tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, shuah@kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org, rgoldwyn@suse.com, kuno@frob.nl, fontana@sharpeleven.org, Ciaran.Farrell@suse.com, Christopher.DeNicolo@suse.com, hch@lst.de, corbet@lwn.net, linux@leemhuis.info, ast@kernel.org, andriin@fb.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, atenart@kernel.org, alobakin@pm.me, weiwan@google.com, ap420073@gmail.com, tj@kernel.org, jeyu@kernel.org, ngupta@vflare.org, sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, minchan@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, mbenes@suse.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, jikos@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, peterz@infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, copyleft-next@lists.fedorahosted.org Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:56:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20210707184310.3624761-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.40.0-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: 475dg3wxf8bgjys8z5wo7iib4gfsknho X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 332772EBFC6 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX19kIzUQ5SAeC/3sY9lA0yTN+vDwkbWjZK8= X-HE-Tag: 1625763368-322840 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 17:32 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > Any chance you wish to just change the license of these files, given that > > > you are the only one that has tried to use it for kernel code? > > > > There is a lot of dual-licensed (GPLv2-only|{2,3}-Clause-BSD) code already in > > Linux. Many corporate copyright holders have well documented strong reasons > > for wanting that. (Those policy goals and the analysis behind them, I find > > problematic and sometimes outright wrong, but nonetheless it's their right to > > license their copyrights that way, and the license *is* GPLv2-only > > compatible, as is Luis'!). > > > > I assume that you're not asking those companies to relicense to pure > > GPLv2-only. > > On the contrary, I have stated in public many times to companies that > try to add dual-licensed new kernel code that they should only do so if > they provide a really good reason, and pushed back on them numerous > times. See the mailing list archives for details if you care. > > So yes, I am asking them, this is not anything new. > > Let's keep it simple please, and not add new licenses for no real good > reason if at all possible. You can ask but it's the submitter's choice to license their code however they desire.