Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Alan, Linus, > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> You may be

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Alan, Linus, > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM,

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Alan, Linus, On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. >> >> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Alan, Linus, On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. >> >> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse >> wrote: >> > >> > That should be "GNU Lesser

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Hi Alan, > Which raises another question. If there are multiple GPL 2.0 texts which > are *supposedly* legally identical but this has never been tested in law > -that implies SPDX is wrong in tagging them identically in case they turn > out not to be... For the cases, and the differences we're

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Hi Alan, > Which raises another question. If there are multiple GPL 2.0 texts which > are *supposedly* legally identical but this has never been tested in law > -that implies SPDX is wrong in tagging them identically in case they turn > out not to be... For the cases, and the differences we're

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:31:05PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse > >

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:31:05PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse > > wrote: > > > > > > That should be "GNU Lesser

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse > wrote: > > > > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:14:00 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse > wrote: > > > > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General > > Public" > > That's just

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Charlemagne Lasse wrote: > 2017-11-16 19:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Gleixner : > > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > > copied directly from: > > > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > > > Add the required

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Charlemagne Lasse wrote: > 2017-11-16 19:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Gleixner : > > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > > copied directly from: > > > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > > > Add the required tags for reference

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 21:41 GMT+01:00 Charlemagne Lasse : > 2017-11-18 20:14 GMT+01:00 Linus Torvalds : >> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. >> > >> I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic >> internal

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 21:41 GMT+01:00 Charlemagne Lasse : > 2017-11-18 20:14 GMT+01:00 Linus Torvalds : >> You may be confusing things because of a newer version. >> > >> I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic >> internal FSF politics that tried to change history. > > And do you

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 20:14 GMT+01:00 Linus Torvalds : > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic > internal FSF politics that tried to change history. But you are accepting commit messages

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 20:14 GMT+01:00 Linus Torvalds : > You may be confusing things because of a newer version. > > I refuse to change the original copyright wording due to idiotic > internal FSF politics that tried to change history. But you are accepting commit messages which are factually wrong? I am

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

>This is neither the GPL-2.0 from >https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt I think it should be the copy from COPYING, in fact, since that's the exact GPL 2.0 license the kernel is under. Library GPL is factually correct; Lesser GPL is a newer name for the same license, but COPYING retains the

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

>This is neither the GPL-2.0 from >https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt I think it should be the copy from COPYING, in fact, since that's the exact GPL 2.0 license the kernel is under. Library GPL is factually correct; Lesser GPL is a newer name for the same license, but COPYING retains the

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

You may be confusing things because of a newer version. On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse wrote: > > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General > Public" That's just FSF revisionism. It used to be called "Library" over

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

You may be confusing things because of a newer version. On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Charlemagne Lasse wrote: > > That should be "GNU Lesser General Public" and not "GNU Library General > Public" That's just FSF revisionism. It used to be called "Library" over "Lesser", in the original

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 20:03 GMT+01:00 Charlemagne Lasse : >> +Ty Coon, President of Vice >> + >> +This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into >> +proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may >> +consider it more useful

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-18 20:03 GMT+01:00 Charlemagne Lasse : >> +Ty Coon, President of Vice >> + >> +This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into >> +proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may >> +consider it more useful to permit linking

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-16 19:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Gleixner : > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > copied directly from: > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > Add the required tags for reference and tooling. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

2017-11-16 19:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Gleixner : > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > copied directly from: > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > Add the required tags for reference and tooling. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner NACKed-by:

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 07:33:08PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > copied directly from: > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > Add the required tags for reference and tooling. > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 07:33:08PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was > copied directly from: > >https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText > > Add the required tags for reference and tooling. > > Signed-off-by:

[patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was copied directly from: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText Add the required tags for reference and tooling. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 | 348

[patch V2 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the kernel tree. It was copied directly from: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html#licenseText Add the required tags for reference and tooling. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 | 348