Re: [PATCH v9 3/6] selftests: add tests_sysfs module

Greg KH
2022-05-22T14:47:12Z

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 04:37:19PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Greg,
>
> On Fri, Dec 03 2021 at 16:29, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:44:57AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> sorry for missing this thread. I came accross it now as I'm looking into
> the licensing mess again.
>
> >> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
> >
> > Again, sorry, but no, I am going to object to this license as you are
> > only accessing a GPL-v2-only api. Any other license on a file that
> > interacts with that, especially for core stuff like testing the
> > functionality of this code, needs to have that same license. Sorry.
>
> That's a bogus argument. First of all the code is dual licensed and
> second we have enough code in the kernel which is licensed MIT/BSD and
> happily can access the GPL-v2-only APIs.
>
> Aside of that we have already code in the kernel which is dual licensed
>
> GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>
> We just can't make it SPDX clean because copyleft-next-0.3.1 is not in
> LICENSING.
>
> While I agree that we want to keep the number of licenses as small as
> possible, we cannot really dictate which dual licensing options a
> submitter selects unless the license is GPL-2.0-only incompatible, which
> copyleft-next is not.
>
> Can we just get over this, add the license with the SPDX identifier and
> move on?

From what I recall, I had technical reasons I didn't take this series,
but that was a long time ago and I would be glad to review it again if
it were rebased and resubmitted after the next merge window is closed.

thanks,

greg k-h