Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

09 Dec, 2020

1 commit

  • bc41a7f36   LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license ... Browse Code »

    Add the full text of the CC-BY-4.0 license to the kernel tree as well as
    the required tags for reference and tooling.

    The license text was copied directly from the following url, but for
    clarification a 'Creative Commons' was added before 'Attribution 4.0
    International' in the first line:
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt

    CC-BY-4.0 is GPLv2 compatible, but when for example used for the
    kernel's documentation it can easily happen that sphinx during
    processing combines it with text or code from files using a more
    restrictive license[1]. This bears pitfalls, hence point that risk out
    and suggest to only use this license in combination with the GPLv2.

    [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201201144314.GA14256@lst.de

    Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis
    Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    CC: Thomas Gleixner
    CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    CC: Christoph Hellwig
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7115b6c20ae3e6db0370fe4002dd586011205e1c.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info
    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

    Thorsten Leemhuis
     

03 May, 2019

1 commit

  • 8ea8814fc   LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses ... Browse Code »

    Just like the CDDL the Apache license and the MPL must only be used as
    a choice in additional to an GPL2 compatible license. Copy over the
    boilerplate from the CDDL file to the other two after fixing it up to
    make it clear the licenses need to be GPL2 compatible, not just the
    more generic GPL compatible. For example the Apache 2 license is GPL3
    compatible, but that doesn't matter for the kernel.

    Also move these licenses to a separate directory and document the rules
    in license-rules.rst.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

    Christoph Hellwig