[PATCH 0/1] staging: android: ion: add the GPL exception note to header

[PATCH 0/1] staging: android: ion: add the GPL exception note to header

[Hyun Kwon]

Hi,

I wonder if the exception, "WITH Linux-syscall-note", can be added to
the ion header license, to allow user source code with different
license to include it without being derivative of GPL.

More specifically, we want to use this ion header in a BSD license
module [1], without enforcing the GPL license on its users or
on the module itself when it has a copy of the header in its source
code.

Any guide on what can be done would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-hyun

[1] https://github.com/OpenAMP/libmetal/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Hyun Kwon (1):
  staging: android: ion: Add the GPL exception for syscalls

 drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
2.7.4

[PATCH 1/1] staging: android: ion: Add the GPL exception for syscalls

[Hyun Kwon]

Add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to the license to not put GPL
restrictions on user space programs using this header.

Signed-off-by: Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@xilinx.com>
---
 drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
index 5d70098..46c93fc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
 /*
  * drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
  *
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: android: ion: Add the GPL exception for syscalls

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:01:46PM -0800, Hyun Kwon wrote:
> Add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to the license to not put GPL
> restrictions on user space programs using this header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@xilinx.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> index 5d70098..46c93fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
>  /*
>   * drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>   *
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

Yes, that is the correct thing to do, let me go queue this up.

thanks,

greg k-h