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Message-ID: <20190130204848.19fc6912@alans-desktop>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000
From:   Alan Cox <alan@...yncelyn.cymru>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2"
 bogosity

> > > +    "GPL and additional rights"   Historical variant of expressing that the
> > > +				  module source is dual licensed under a
> > > +				  GPL v2 variant and MIT license. Please do
> > > +				  not use in new code.

Actually it was a historic fix for the fact that some slimeballs were
going to use a proposed "BSD" tag and just ship binaries only whilst
claiming that they were totally compliant with the BSD licence.

Alan

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