Re: Plan to add Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement to SPDX additional permissions list

2018-12-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 19:10 -0800, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > Finally, there's the question of what value does a file containing > > WITH KernelEnforcementStatement-1.0 provide to downstream? > > > > I think the answer here is pretty much none in legal terms. > > At the b

Re: Plan to add Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement to SPDX additional permissions list

2018-12-02 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
James Bottomley wrote: > Finally, there's the question of what value does a file containing WITH > KernelEnforcementStatement-1.0 provide to downstream? > > I think the answer here is pretty much none in legal terms. At the beginning here, it seems like you are saying the LinuxEnforcementStatement

Re: Plan to add Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement to SPDX additional permissions list (Re: meeting minutes: Linux kernel enforcement statement / GPL Cooperation Commitment)

2018-12-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 21:03 -0800, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Michael Dolan wrote: > > It solely modifies an individual's contribution with additional > > permissions. > > Indeed, that's precisely what every "additional permission" does > (going back to the Bison Exception in the 1980s). [...] I t

Plan to add Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement to SPDX additional permissions list (Re: meeting minutes: Linux kernel enforcement statement / GPL Cooperation Commitment)

2018-11-30 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Michael Dolan wrote: > It solely modifies an individual's contribution with additional > permissions. Indeed, that's precisely what every "additional permission" does (going back to the Bison Exception in the 1980s). So, you've basically stated there the very definition of a "license exception".