Hi Maxime, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 23:42, Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> wrote:
> This patch adds a 'suspect-license' linter detecting some suspicious > values in the license fields of linux modules: I do not know if it is worth to add a linter for really few corner cases, IMHO. > For zfs, the issue is the CDDL license. For the others, the issue > is the gpl3+ license. See the article by the SFLC for why this linter > detets ZFS: > > <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/#footnote-other-ZFS-copyright-holders>. The issue is about distributing binaries, IIUC. From my point of view, a such linter should check X-license packages using any build-system but “linked“ to incompatible X-license packages. Well, I do not know if it is worth to automate this since it appears to me really sparse corner cases. Cheers, simon
