From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 22:07:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131006200732.GD18082@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131006191804.GB27140@kroah.com>
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 12:18:04PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> You can do that, but I know a whole lot of lawyers who will not like
> that, as you aren't being explicit about what the license of the file
> is, and relying on something else.
I was afraid that some legal-profession-mumbo-jumbo would require the
explicit stating of the license in *every* goddam file. Oh well...
> Remember, Linux kernel source files are licensed with all sorts of
> different licenses, all of which are compatable and default to GPL
> when used as a whole, but can be different on their own.
Right.
> Lawyers, just like kernel developers, are never happy, it's not in
> their nature...
Why am I not surprised?! :-)
Thanks.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-06 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-05 18:43 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address Josh Triplett
2013-10-05 18:51 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-05 19:03 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 6:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 7:01 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 7:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 8:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 13:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-06 19:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-10-06 19:19 ` Rob Landley
2013-10-06 21:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:18 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:27 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 21:33 ` Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 21:48 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-06 22:23 ` [PATCHv2] " Josh Triplett
2013-10-06 23:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-06 23:16 ` Joe Perches
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-11 9:49 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: check " Antony Pavlov
2014-09-12 5:41 ` Sascha Hauer
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