From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/6] alfred: Change batman_adv.h license to MIT
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:58:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1625731.QymgRaWFpc@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171119140602.24504-7-sven@narfation.org>
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On Sonntag, 19. November 2017 15:06:02 CET Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The ISC license is considered as not recommended in "Linux kernel licensing
> rules". It should only be used for existing code or for importing code from
> a different project with that license.
>
> But the kernel still has the similar sounding MIT/Expat license under the
> preferred licenses. Switching to this license for this relatively new file
> should therefore allow batman-adv to better follow the new licensing rules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> ---
> Only apply this change after the change was applied in batman-adv.
The batman-adv change was applied and it received following Acked-by's [1]
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Acked-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Kind regards,
Sven
[1] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/17116/
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-19 14:05 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] alfred: License cleanup Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:05 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/6] alfred: Rename LICENSE to Linux's LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:05 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/6] alfred: Add License-Filename to GPL-2.0 files Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:05 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/6] alfred: Import Linux's LICENSES/preferred/MIT Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:06 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/6] alfred: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:06 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/6] alfred: Mark remaining files as GPL-2.0 Sven Eckelmann
2017-11-19 14:06 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/6] alfred: Change batman_adv.h license to MIT Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-06 10:58 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2017-12-01 13:41 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v2 5/6] alfred: Mark remaining files as GPL-2.0 Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-08 13:22 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] alfred: License cleanup Simon Wunderlich
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