From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 800D1218E91; Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753353508; cv=none; b=GMFSVVjRMwfsUyr4xd+zICpdgUjLy3kfuzS5uHzIw5lv83PNKpQsBu0rMwgbhhbG3Bh3TPrVGJUPREgtpqsZGH9Db/kI7l5ofxBYWEQvGhLgSk6+0gIyrvLxsXhRXEddZVHI6Is793FZXPCKf4VRE/BYY52QZVcLOBZFpYCMcOE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753353508; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kI0t3TBEMVWbBG32IrGZsBZwEow/Om1r7MbtOtAGh58=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FXTdAD5gjyk1KrA8imHARULy1tpsuJCubEpnzYz9DtqXNhasbQT8MixvdcxRDeDbml4onxDd6NCFGLSZQrNgVal0qNAjm8JJTnih7yAVjm3Sj9VunjTHEOePM4xEMlEDT7qT+pNzkgL/DOzrnwSQQjgs84wYEMQqZqJmsg6aobY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=jMNcgaL1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="jMNcgaL1" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AAEAC4CEED; Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:38:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1753353508; bh=kI0t3TBEMVWbBG32IrGZsBZwEow/Om1r7MbtOtAGh58=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=jMNcgaL1HE87qpDOYoJzkCd2Ii3Z5ekOKk5NtXFysM9KhHD9moTQIA+0vwniCfOUj Pz2Of2Nj2mCBtmH0uhl8yj/TTttvbXzq+r82pJTMeJCGbKj3VmTRTltNZrBb+/cfp6 sKhdlJDecFvBvkoT2zzgcFaKg3CjCsbAiaI3PcxQ= Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:38:24 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Aditya Garg Cc: Jonathan Corbet , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: mention MIT license as a compatible license with GPLv2 Message-ID: <2025072459-tweezers-dingbat-b748@gregkh> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 > --- > 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