From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750968AbdJVC2Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:28:25 -0400 Received: from pine.sfconservancy.org ([162.242.171.33]:33544 "EHLO pine.sfconservancy.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbdJVC2Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:28:24 -0400 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" 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 Organization: Software Freedom Conservancy References: <20171020192519.78772151@alans-desktop> Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEVAKiCGSDptUUeJe3eu eGm7dGzcopjFce4jAAACdklEQVQ4y2WUwZKbMAyGjZPesWt6xg7dcxbonmNW+Fx2MPdujN//EfrL 2XabVElmGEufflkSEQ4mu5Eo5GIvgQSfCdf3bUcpf1q6yL7v2StGCuHv+ZZ7yYdwyjsg56u4Ee3x X4BVWlmIlijdIywiuKZAYfsX6Qtxlo9AfhdMtBJ3uBPJg5A34hG5tg6EOI7hgaBCtO4/jXQjJD0S fJEbcQ/kKy4iTuLYIZ4/n8RZngT3Nj8aE6iKMA1Y2LYtkDEdhZ6Jc0feWqX8inJ8rdwr0TuIAzS0 1LpSTcikdUc0vkyHojFZN71O1m45lZxpOn/vhWxBONONWpuxB9yZMDkF4uJo8q4dntsxX/zkiPL1 6t+Eq4V4MsY9Kf0lT2PpQqL5VTzXlvCEfk0dNG5NSPubsMqEpzBD0zc5Unjhm6cfIBQK5Kjdx7yv /JBymifRKXPbwlXNuDrNcd5yCKhq6SjSvu/LuhYwsgahuyAQFePczLyGG/ZlCwbEs6Y173lfGhAg i8o0iJM7dDMHNo1B8hiZoK+DGHpFEWH7EhdKc/6F2m5EX5kmbtvcKFE1zUYoLpIuhPdxT2v8WVfe r+my7msqjkqpZo7Ga6UqqZQ+og2HQliH/NZbZWtr8VuTZ2KQRhtSlVEcruoKnSjE0FrfLXWtFL5q ER6NXhw7RGWYEBWL+QYTmT3fYzhbQpT3yifuVEqJ/GtJhfTfAs1NhGGzQuj0qRC1BYEZ5L1MD7Qd 2IFNUcYEInQLk0FNRn84lMX+IrNVxAT5U3HgjcMC4j/EYPwgxr4+3BytsHYCkooUyHb445AaIjnM WN9sRi0/HGcBhFX4XUx+atnxG85wHO8ZbYsqAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:28:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Pavel Nikulin's message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2017 22:16:12 +0300") Message-ID: <87mv4j6hmk.fsf@ebb.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: > Modification of GPL V2 terms are explicitly disallowed. Greg KH replied at 03:29 (US/Eastern) on Friday: >> Again, we are not modifying the license, so all should be fine I agree with Greg; the Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement does not change the license of Linux as a whole, and it does not modify the GPLv2. Pavel Nikulin wrote at 11:28 (US/Eastern) on Thursday: > Greg, are you trying to put a new addendum to the terms of GPL v2? ... Pavel Nikulin wrote further at 15:16 (US/Eastern) today: > If you say that your lawyers have comprehensively researched that, > I can't say they did a good job. Almost every line sounds close to > being a contractual agreement. ... > And even this last phrase does not states explicitly that the nature of > the document as non-legally binding. ... > Moreover, you put "additional permissions under our license" wording > there, Certainly this issue is complicated. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2017/oct/20/additional-permissions/ might help. I decided yesterday to write a blog post digging deep into the weeds on this, for those interested. -- Bradley M. Kuhn Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy ======================================================================== Become a Conservancy Supporter today: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter