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From: Werner Sembach <wse@tuxedocomputers.com>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@kernel.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/licensing: Clarify wording about "GPL" and "Proprietary"
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:11:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <635639b1-bb61-49dd-84b6-b2db82b7c24f@tuxedocomputers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241115103842.585207-2-ukleinek@kernel.org>

Hi,

Am 15.11.24 um 11:38 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> There are currently some doubts about out-of-tree kernel modules licensed
> under GPLv3 and if they are supposed to be able to use symbols exported
> using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
>
> Clarify that "Proprietary" means anything non-GPL2 even though the
> license might be an open source license. Also disambiguate "GPL
> compatible" to "GPLv2 compatible".
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>

Thanks for adding this clarification.

Kind regards,

Werner Sembach


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-15 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-15 10:38 Uwe Kleine-König
2024-11-15 11:11 ` Werner Sembach [this message]
2024-11-22 17:45 ` Jonathan Corbet

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