From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752483AbdJTH3Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:29:24 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47630 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752079AbdJTH3V (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:29:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:29:28 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Nikulin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy Message-ID: <20171020072928.GB6464@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 06:28:12PM +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote: > Hold! > > Greg, are you trying to put a new addendum to the terms of GPL v2? Nope, as I said many times, that's not what is happening here. > I read the FAQ you posted, having you writing in that FAQ that this is > not a change to license terms is not enough. Really? Why not? According to whom? {hint, not according to all of the legal people I have worked with on this topic, and it was a boatload of them...} > Modification of GPL V2 terms are explicitly disallowed. Again, we are not modifying the license, so all should be fine, thanks for agreeing! greg k-h