Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1

Greg KH
2021-07-08T15:32:37Z

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > Any chance you wish to just change the license of these files, given that
> > you are the only one that has tried to use it for kernel code?
>
> There is a lot of dual-licensed (GPLv2-only|{2,3}-Clause-BSD) code already in
> Linux. Many corporate copyright holders have well documented strong reasons
> for wanting that. (Those policy goals and the analysis behind them, I find
> problematic and sometimes outright wrong, but nonetheless it's their right to
> license their copyrights that way, and the license *is* GPLv2-only
> compatible, as is Luis'!).
>
> I assume that you're not asking those companies to relicense to pure
> GPLv2-only.

On the contrary, I have stated in public many times to companies that
try to add dual-licensed new kernel code that they should only do so if
they provide a really good reason, and pushed back on them numerous
times. See the mailing list archives for details if you care.

So yes, I am asking them, this is not anything new.

Let's keep it simple please, and not add new licenses for no real good
reason if at all possible.

thanks,

greg k-h