Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:47:54 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > + "GPL and additional rights" Historical variant of expressing that the > > > > + module source is dual licensed under a > > > > + GPL v2 variant and MIT license. Please do > > > > + not use in new code. > > Actually it was a historic fix for the fact that some slimeballs were > going to use a proposed "BSD" tag and just ship binaries only whilst > claiming that they were totally compliant with the BSD licence.
Ah, that is valuable information. I spent quite some time NOT to find it :)
Thanks,
tglx
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