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From: Rasmus Villemoes <ravi@prevas.dk>
To: denis.osterland@diehl.com
Cc: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] linux-yocto: add and use GPL-2.0-with-syscall-note license
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:18:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttbkhpm8.fsf@prevas.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7568332ffcb1456abdd1677fabb9fc8f@diehl.com> (Denis OSTERLAND-HEIM via lists openembedded org's message of "Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:18:54 +0100 (CET)")

On Tue, Dec 03 2024, "Denis OSTERLAND-HEIM via lists.openembedded.org" <denis.osterland=diehl.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:

> See Linux COPYING, LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> and LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note.
>
> +
[snip GPL text]
> +
> +   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
> + services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
> + of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
> + Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software

So since you're combining thbe GPL text and the syscall-note text, why
not take an exact copy of the COPYING file as it existed in the kernel
tree before the current split. That would also make word "below" actually make
sense. I.e.,

  git show b3358a116:COPYING

Rasmus


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-03 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-03 12:18 [PATCH v2] linux-yocto: add and use GPL-2.0-with-syscall-note license Denis OSTERLAND-HEIM
2024-12-03 13:18 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2024-12-03 17:37 ` [OE-core] " Khem Raj

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