From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:43:29 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn Message-ID: <20171123154329.GE30167@lunn.ch> References: <20171119140517.24329-1-sven@narfation.org> <20171119140517.24329-9-sven@narfation.org> <7304207.KlJx96cEKj@bentobox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7304207.KlJx96cEKj@bentobox> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 8/9] batman-adv: Change batman_adv.h license to MIT List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sven Eckelmann Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:36:04PM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Sonntag, 19. November 2017 15:05:16 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 > > --- > > I would ask for Acked-by from following persons > > What I wanted to say here: "I would like to get an Acked-by reply from > following persons" (thanks to Simon, Matthias and Antonio for the fast > response). Hi Sven Sorry, was not paying close enough attentions to notice you wanted my feedback. I just looked at Linus's current master branch: ~/linux/include/uapi$ grep -hr SPDX * | sort | uniq -c 14 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note */ 541 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ 113 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note */ 1 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) */ 21 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) */ 17 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) */ 4 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) */ 3 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) */ 3 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note */ 3 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ 15 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note */ We are in the region of "Lies, damn lies, and statistics", but everything with an SPDX tag has some form of GPL/LGPL. Now, adding SPDX tags is a new activity, and adding the GPLs tags have been done first, since they are easier to do. So it could be there are a lot of UAPI header files which are not {L}GPL. Also, given this small sample, it seems BSD is more popular over MIT. I understand the reasons for ISC to MIT, so Acked-by: Andrew Lunn However, i wounder if GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note OR one of the BSD variants would be more consistent with the rest of the kernel? Andrew