From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Automatic module license checking
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:11:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA36E7A.4020308@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello, all. Due to recent case of non-compliance with GPL in a project
using GRUB2 codebase and according to new GNU guidelines I've
implemented an automatic module license checking. This checks doesn't
change in nothing the distributor obligation: any GRUB2 module is
covered by GPLv3(+) (and optionally dual-licensed under another
license). However, this change makes this compliance requirement
explicit by requiring author to put a GRUB_MOD_LICENSE macro. Also note
that everybody is allowed to remove the said check but doing so doesn't
free from legal GPL obligation. When implementing this check I've added
a bunch of GRUB_MOD_LICENSE and GRUB_MOD_DUAL_LICENSE, I'll be grateful
if everyone who sees a problem (e.g. non-correspondance between license
header and macro) would report it to me and I'll fix it as soon as time
permits.
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 1:33 UTC|newest]
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2011-04-11 21:11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-04-12 4:33 ` Automatic module license checking richardvoigt
2011-04-12 5:48 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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