From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention MIT license as a compatible license with GPLv2
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:03:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PN3PR01MB95977C87764A556FFD49FB72B85EA@PN3PR01MB9597.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
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.
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.
+Any contributions which are not covered by a compatible license will not
+be accepted into the kernel.
Copyright assignments are not required (or requested) for code contributed
to the kernel. All code merged into the mainline kernel retains its
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-24 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-24 10:03 Aditya Garg [this message]
2025-07-24 10:38 ` Greg KH
2025-07-24 10:41 ` Aditya Garg
2025-07-24 11:47 ` Greg KH
2025-07-24 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
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