From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:42235 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbdKYSvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:51:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:51:40 +0100 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses Message-ID: <20171125185140.GA5114@amd> References: <20171116183306.103584007@linutronix.de> <20171116184358.398030394@linutronix.de> <20171117150639.0e706421@vento.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171117150639.0e706421@vento.lan> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Kate Stewart , Philippe Ombredanne , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Jonas Oberg , Joe Perches , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Charlemagne Lasse , Carmen Bianca Bakker --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri 2017-11-17 15:06:39, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Thomas, >=20 > Em Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:00:33 +0100 (CET) > Thomas Gleixner escreveu: >=20 > > Subject: Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to proper= ly identify file licenses > > From: Thomas Gleixner > > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:30:00 +0100 > >=20 > > Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses > > should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as = well > > as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to > > refer to (LICENSES/). > >=20 > > Thanks to Kate, Greg and Jonathan for review and editing and Jonas for = the > > suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner >=20 > The document itself looks good, but I think it should also mention > what would be the expected values for the MODULE_LICENSE() macro and > how each license would be mapped into it. >=20 > Right now, include/linux/module.h says: >=20 > /* > * The following license idents are currently accepted as indicating free > * software modules > * > * "GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later] Hmm. AFAICT Greg translated GPL as GPL v1 or later. That seemed wrong... and now it seems even more wrong. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAloZu7wACgkQMOfwapXb+vInsACgl8OvtwbLO8qiw6NPDgIDgFbZ c18AnRngkGne/+G0QXQmUpHBlNz4Jf6m =gKKs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--