Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:32:32 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1 |
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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
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