linux-kernel - Re: [patch V5 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <b353bb05-e9ea-86b7-7f34-c4c0f6b308fb@fsfe.org>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:25:38 +0100
From:   Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca@...e.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <rob.herring@...aro.org>,
        Jonas Oberg <jonas@...e.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@...il.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch V5 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

Hi all,

Since December, `GPL-2.0` is no longer the correct identifier for the
licence.  The American FSF has been in talks with the SPDX Workgroup to
change it to `GPL-2.0-only`.

See the rationale here:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/identify-licenses-clearly.html

See the new canonical licence list here:

https://spdx.org/licenses/

This change is valid for all GPL licences.  Similarly, `GPL-2.0+` has
been changed to `GPL-2.0-or-later`.

I believe that this patch should be changed to reflect that.  The
identifiers used in this patch are still valid, but deprecated.

Yours sincerely,

-- 
Carmen Bianca Bakker
Technical Intern
Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.



Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (834 bytes)