From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pavel Nikulin <nikulinpi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:29:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171020072928.GB6464@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN3U_kVTaRRW3kkSBb8Ko8NQwgkQGv3_BgfWXq1mw_1R1h4_Uw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 06:28:12PM +0300, Pavel Nikulin wrote:
> Hold!
>
> Greg, are you trying to put a new addendum to the terms of GPL v2?
Nope, as I said many times, that's not what is happening here.
> I read the FAQ you posted, having you writing in that FAQ that this is
> not a change to license terms is not enough.
Really? Why not? According to whom? {hint, not according to all of
the legal people I have worked with on this topic, and it was a boatload
of them...}
> Modification of GPL V2 terms are explicitly disallowed.
Again, we are not modifying the license, so all should be fine, thanks
for agreeing!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-20 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-19 15:28 Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-20 7:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-10-20 18:25 ` Alan Cox
2017-10-21 8:03 ` Greg KH
2017-10-21 19:16 ` Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-22 2:28 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2017-10-23 7:50 ` Greg KH
2017-10-23 13:11 ` Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-23 14:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-23 17:47 ` Damian Tometzki
2017-10-23 18:26 ` Damian Tometzki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-16 9:25 Greg KH
2017-10-16 13:11 ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-16 13:46 ` Greg KH
2017-10-16 14:31 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2017-10-16 14:50 ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-17 14:57 ` Greg KH
2017-12-10 8:21 ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-17 8:06 ` Greg KH
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