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From: Alan Cox <alan@llwyncelyn.cymru>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190130204848.19fc6912@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1901291510060.1513@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

> > > +    "GPL and additional rights"   Historical variant of expressing that the
> > > +				  module source is dual licensed under a
> > > +				  GPL v2 variant and MIT license. Please do
> > > +				  not use in new code.

Actually it was a historic fix for the fact that some slimeballs were
going to use a proposed "BSD" tag and just ship binaries only whilst
claiming that they were totally compliant with the BSD licence.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-28 22:38 [PATCH][RFC] module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-29  1:32 ` Joe Perches
2019-01-29  5:27 ` Greg KH
2019-01-29 13:06 ` Jessica Yu
2019-01-29 14:11   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-30 20:48     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2019-01-30 21:47       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-07  0:21     ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-02-08 16:02       ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-09  9:37         ` Philippe Ombredanne
2019-02-09 12:11           ` Greg KH
2019-02-10 18:58           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-11 15:19             ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-02-11  8:44         ` Jessica Yu
2019-01-30  5:01 ` [PATCH][RFC] " Rusty Russell
2019-01-30 18:21   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-30 20:45   ` Alan Cox
2019-01-30 22:00     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-31 15:18 ` Philippe Ombredanne

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