On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 07:59:13AM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
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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