linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license

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Message-ID: <Yo5xTwGLmbsgJhfM@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 25 May 2022 11:11:27 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     "Bird, Tim" <Tim.Bird@...y.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Richard Fontana <fontana@...rpeleven.org>,
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        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>,
        Kuno Woudt <kuno@...b.nl>,
        "copyleft-next@...ts.fedorahosted.org" 
        <copyleft-next@...ts.fedorahosted.org>,
        Ciaran Farrell <Ciaran.Farrell@...e.com>,
        Christopher De Nicolo <Christopher.DeNicolo@...e.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 05:05:54PM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:
> I know it's being submitted as an OR, but I question
> the value of introducing another license into the kernel's licensing mix.

As a free software hacker *I* value the evolution of copyleft and copyleft-next
does just that. Some may have thought that it may not have been possible to
evolve copyleft and work with an evolved license on Linux, but copyleft-next
shows it is possible. Here in lies the value I see in it.

I agree that we want to keep the number of licenses as small as
possible but we cannot really dictate which dual licensing options a
submitter selects unless the license is GPL-2.0-only incompatible,
which copyleft-next is not.

  Luis