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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2"
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> > > +    "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.

Alan