From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751107AbdKLLYI (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:24:08 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:55246 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbdKLLYH (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:24:07 -0500 From: Charlemagne Lasse To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: greg@kroah.com, Charlemagne Lasse , Jonas Oberg Subject: [RESENT,PATCH 0/5] licenses: Create LICENSES directory Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:23:43 +0100 Message-Id: <20171112102729.17163-1-charlemagnelasse@outlook.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:KTZsTdeWljNTEt14c1umsK/Px422eC2PvcXnCJ5K1cFiRR7L5jT CVRBeZXKCnTYjxWFSRWmyTdEcXAuIWjUW1xJEx5uplgsUnw85+aWoed4vq1vkWfrSPkLiPj dFeH+SwmevVsHJyr9eN0/F6XyYNXbIn5TWe8YVmZj8l/hiEyeLwsW/pdUFpjrYbcHTUoHS0 IMyxRZs/VW0NPwWUBP4Qw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:UUvc5+fGLRQ=:VcRnw/yFT3xMVO46oYpBt+ YkhGHvDINMJGMdPlhNe3mBnmRuQ/hbMVW/0N3/S6Xi5YkjnUpn5GK/x4YId6isTzdvJFZInZn 5YcLfqfEeJ06rFSMN1eN3xrt7WlUEdSj4Tb2UpgyzyF0LiFa4gILaNAuo17RrUvLU1YgyO7LP 3rEXAyP7as8CIn3YWnEGUzUnTIET7mxL86oPc+Lba1d+mRDuttfPRVNaVUOIuHV5Po/asQdGF bx2kJa3jEhl8mjNRIQx4awNvu45Ubi4LXD3oIm0lDCXK0sxPfuQSzgcZTALHN3jD8ltnwuuFA oMzpI1jk/MNt8o8ItAVIAWlrfoOeXOv7KSiUfZzo/qPIbIv48tABZicAo42QKvpA4tbicyN2F lIB53MEf3gsgqn9Ukq/kJB4ipYEUKym4Mpz3ZOQLCNiU259ckKA+RI6dI+xCKIgtIPizUb46M x/KXLxFkDBbm9BT6XLBxtRWvPFjZrdY4OIucHuWbKCPuo8CeC7wmgC4gY5ohqbOVYOb94Hpub MGH0oaM3dvFFo8NBuZbAHf/EID/p8ttnjcsv/HZ5522aqZFh/ZzEtgaGo8fQsGdQud2VT5MRn xl0yjStf46bLz/3YaHAFpLRbmZjayEZr7IhoeSIwHUx2eSG7N8/RHnlpF2SLCLUw7AkoRKHXv RIk8ZosDbP6fMByBe6/kEzT6nTe1kK9Wb2oZtkgBesk6ETCMaw40xahrlKqcy4vS+KFRiE4Jc JY+IDGIuFK0Y6dqT/bR127zRY3LWucf8+4owAUZbpYprQnT6W3nhKnSKm0JQeUgB9a2jWm/Sh wshaVzbn3xT3JZpPJBLVgOIjWYl0g== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Charlemagne Lasse Hi, the FSFE created some best practices for the (re)distribution of open source software [1]. They partially talk about the the SPDX-License-Identifier tag which Greg Kroah-Hartman is already using to clarify the copyright status of some source files. But they also recommend to ship the complete license texts in a LICENSES directory when they are not already included in the source files. The Linux kernel itself is licensed under the GPL-2.0 but also references other licenses in some source files without the complete license text. I went through the SPDX-License-Identifier tags to find which ones are referenced and should be included. This is only a start and I have not yet touched the COPYING file at all. This file should most likely also be included in the LICENSES/ directory with some name like GPL-2.0_Linux-syscall-note.txt. Maybe Jonas Oberg could lend me his expertise again and tell us whether this name would be appropriate and whether it should contain only the exception (the WITH part of "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note") or the complete content of the current COPYING file. Thanks, Charlemagne Lasse [1] https://reuse.software/practices/ Charlemagne Lasse (5): licenses: Add verbatim LGPL-2.0 license text licenses: Add verbatim LGPL-2.1 license text licenses: Add verbatim MPL-1.1 license text licenses: Add verbatim GPL-1.0 license text licenses: Add verbatim GPL-2.0 license text LICENSES/GPL-1.0.txt | 251 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt | 339 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/LGPL-2.0.txt | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt | 502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LICENSES/MPL-1.1.txt | 469 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 2042 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-1.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-2.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.0.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/LGPL-2.1.txt create mode 100644 LICENSES/MPL-1.1.txt PS: I had to resent this because the LKML seems to have rejected this mail. Sorry for the other recipients for receiving the mail twice. -- 2.11.0