Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752242AbdLFVAy (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:00:54 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-f175.google.com ([209.85.128.175]:45106 "EHLO mail-wr0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751718AbdLFVAv (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:00:51 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMZ6g65P8zvp8cmr0rMeFYjloZFUbQqYDmrK/SxAWAqN2RhGOJwQt2cqNpyQdpoYGH7EyHusyvfkstVpMotss+Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171205073620.GB15358@kroah.com> References: <20171204211927.673291734@linutronix.de> <20171204212120.575886112@linutronix.de> <20171205073620.GB15358@kroah.com> From: Philippe Ombredanne Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 22:00:09 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch V4 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Kate Stewart , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Jonas Oberg , Joe Perches , xfs , Charlemagne Lasse , Carmen Bianca Bakker Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2524 Lines: 56 On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the LICENSES directory. It was >> copied directly from the COPYING file in the kernel source tree as it >> differs from the public available version of the license in various places >> including the FSF. >> >> Philippe did some research on the GPL2.0 history: >> >> There is NO trustworthy version of an official GPL 2.0 text: the FSF >> official texts are all fubar (if only in small and subtle ways). The FSF >> texts should be authoritative, but then which one? They published more >> GPL 2.0 versions than most. So we would be hard pressed to blame SPDX or >> the OSI for having their own minor variant. >> >> Then in digging further, I found the ONE true original GPL with a file >> time stamp on June 2 1991, 01:50 (AM?, PM? unknown time zone?) ! in an >> old GCC archive. >> >> For the posterity and everyone's enjoyment I have built a git history >> of GPL 2.0 Mark1 to Mark6 >> >> See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/commits/master/COPYING >> >> I also added a shorter history of the Linux COPYING text. The first >> version in Linus's git tree is based on the very fine and well tuned GPL >> 2 Mark4, the first fully Y2K compliant version of the GPL 2, as you can >> see from the diffs with the former Mark3: that was dangerously stuck in >> the last century. >> >> The current version in is based on a rare GPL 2.0 Mark5.1 aka "Franklin >> St", that I do not have in my history yet and spells "Franklin St." >> rather than "Franklin Street." Therefore there is likely another GPL 2.0 >> version between Mark4 and Mark5 that I have yet to find and may not have >> been caught by the archive.org spiders. Here help and patches welcomed: >> this is likely an important missing link. >> >> Further information about this archaelogical research; >> >> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOFm3uEzRMf261+O-Nm+9HDoEn9RbFjH=5J9i1C2GgMUg2G4LA@mail.gmail.com >> >> Add the required tags for reference and tooling. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Thomas you have my cheerful review, this digging was quite fun in fact and I am not half proud of this ending in the kernel doc: thank you. Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne