Re: [PATCH] docs: mention MIT license as a compatible license with GPLv2

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 10:03:41AM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
> MIT is a widely used permissive free software license that is compatible
> with the GPLv2 license. This change adds it to the list of compatible
> licenses with GPLv2 in the kernel documentation.

No, please don't.  This isn't a proper place for talking about the
different license interactions.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
> index 25ca49f7a..c3465e3aa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
> @@ -235,9 +235,9 @@ code must be compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License
>  (GPLv2), which is the license covering the kernel distribution as a whole.
>  In practice, that means that all code contributions are covered either by
>  GPLv2 (with, optionally, language allowing distribution under later
> -versions of the GPL) or the three-clause BSD license.  Any contributions
> -which are not covered by a compatible license will not be accepted into the
> -kernel.
> +versions of the GPL), the three-clause BSD license or the MIT license.

You forgot a ',' anyway :(

thanks,

greg k-h