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From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:11:16AM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:
> I don't think that the Linux kernel should be used for license promotion, but if it is,
> then it should be used to promote GPL-v2-only.

I already *used* copyleft-next on Linux on a dual licensed manner, the
patches in question are about using SPDX to simpllify things and adaopt
the SPDX annotations.

And, to re-iterate once more, I'm using copyeft-next as that is *my*
license of choice for *any* new software projects I use and I want to enable
cross prolination between them. I have been doing this since I wrote
CRDA many years ago. I have many reasons for using copyleft-next and I've
listed many of the reasons why a free software developer would care to enable
this cross polination but yet again you seem to be disregarding all that.

This is similar to how 2-cluase BSD is compatible with the GPL
and is used for cross polination to BSDs even though in practice
a lot of that cross polination may not happen.

There are practical uses here and I've been using this license for years now
and I have no intention on stopping.

  Luis