From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: "Marc Kleine-Budde" <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
linux-can@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:46:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522CD430.1020009@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522CCB73.3090504@hartkopp.net>
On 09/08/2013 09:09 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> On 07.09.2013 21:15, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:25:36 +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
>
>
>>> The usage of netlink.h in a closed source app might be a nother usecase.
>>
>>
>>
>> The intention is clear. But many other uapi include files are used in
>>
>> closed source as well without such a clause.
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you/we sure that this addition is even compatible with the
>>
>> GPL (v2) license. GPL does usually not allow exceptions.
>
> As original author you may chose the license as you like.
>
> That's why our license header intends to be like a BSD license and when used
> inside the Linux kernel the GPL comes into action:
>
> * Alternatively, provided that this notice is retained in full, this
> * software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
> * Public License ("GPL") version 2, in which case the provisions of the
> * GPL apply INSTEAD OF those given above.
>
> And then - just to make it really sure - this additional sentence is written:
>
> * The provided data structures and external interfaces from this code
> * are not restricted to be used by modules with a GPL compatible license.
The question is if this sentence is a legal addition to the GPL license.
I personally doubt but I'm not a lawyer.
Wolfgang.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-08 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 14:30 [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-06 15:48 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-06 19:37 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-06 20:35 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-06 20:45 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-06 21:05 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-07 19:34 ` [PATCH] uapi/linux/can: add explicit copyrights to can's netlink header Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-07 19:57 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-07 20:03 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-07 10:23 ` [PATCH] can: add explicit copyright to header can/netlink.h Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-07 10:25 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-09-07 19:15 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-08 19:09 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-08 19:46 ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2013-09-09 18:06 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-09 20:01 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-09-09 20:29 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2013-09-10 7:59 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2013-09-10 10:19 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
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