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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-04 16:17:55 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-16 11:14:43 +0200 |
commit | 9ed95129ffcabbde564b40ffbbf9c26e8702d858 (patch) | |
tree | affedec411722c828b738d01c3505bb5b63a5281 /Documentation | |
parent | 33d930e59a98fa10a0db9f56c7fa2f21a4aef9b9 (diff) |
Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policy
This adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel
community feels about enforcing the license of the kernel.
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Alex Elder (Linaro) <elder@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong (Oracle) <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ivan Safonov <insafonov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara (SUSE) <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel (SUSE) <jroedel@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij (Linaro) <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Lv Zheng <zetalog@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel (Collabora) <sre@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (SUSE) <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Acked-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 147 |
2 files changed, 148 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 82fc399fcd33..61e43cc3ed17 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. submitting-patches coding-style email-clients + kernel-enforcement-statement Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1e23d4227337 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement +---------------------------------- + +As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software +is used and how the license for our software is enforced. Compliance with the +reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term +sustainability of our software and community. + +Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the +contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that +individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our +community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and +growth of our software ecosystem. In order to deter unhelpful enforcement +actions, we agree that it is in the best interests of our development +community to undertake the following commitment to users of the Linux kernel +on behalf of ourselves and any successors to our copyright interests: + + Notwithstanding the termination provisions of the GPL-2.0, we agree that + it is in the best interests of our development community to adopt the + following provisions of GPL-3.0 as additional permissions under our + license with respect to any non-defensive assertion of rights under the + license. + + However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license + from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, + unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally + terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder + fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to + 60 days after the cessation. + + Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is + reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the + violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have + received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that + copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after + your receipt of the notice. + +Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the +software. We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute +this software. We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to +eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or +enforcement that might limit adoption of our software. We view legal action +as a last resort, to be initiated only when other community efforts have +failed to resolve the problem. + +Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feel +welcome to join us in our efforts on this project. Working together, we will +be stronger. + +Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company +we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. + + - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro) + - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat) + - Neil Armstrong + - Jens Axboe + - Pablo Neira Ayuso + - Khalid Aziz + - Ralf Baechle + - Felipe Balbi + - Arnd Bergmann + - Ard Biesheuvel + - Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat) + - Christian Borntraeger + - Mark Brown (Linaro) + - Paul Burton + - Javier Martinez Canillas + - Rob Clark + - Jonathan Corbet + - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux) + - Hans de Goede (Red Hat) + - Mel Gorman (SUSE) + - Sven Eckelmann + - Alex Elder (Linaro) + - Fabio Estevam + - Larry Finger + - Bhumika Goyal + - Andy Gross + - Juergen Gross + - Shawn Guo + - Ulf Hansson + - Tejun Heo + - Rob Herring + - Masami Hiramatsu + - Michal Hocko + - Simon Horman + - Johan Hovold (Hovold Consulting AB) + - Christophe JAILLET + - Olof Johansson + - Lee Jones (Linaro) + - Heiner Kallweit + - Srinivas Kandagatla + - Jan Kara + - Shuah Khan (Samsung) + - David Kershner + - Jaegeuk Kim + - Namhyung Kim + - Colin Ian King + - Jeff Kirsher + - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) + - Christian König + - Vinod Koul + - Krzysztof Kozlowski + - Viresh Kumar + - Aneesh Kumar K.V + - Julia Lawall + - Doug Ledford (Red Hat) + - Chuck Lever (Oracle) + - Daniel Lezcano + - Shaohua Li + - Xin Long (Red Hat) + - Tony Luck + - Mike Marshall + - Chris Mason + - Paul E. McKenney + - David S. Miller + - Ingo Molnar + - Kuninori Morimoto + - Borislav Petkov + - Jiri Pirko + - Josh Poimboeuf + - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora) + - Guenter Roeck + - Joerg Roedel + - Leon Romanovsky + - Steven Rostedt (VMware) + - Ivan Safonov + - Ivan Safonov + - Anna Schumaker + - Jes Sorensen + - K.Y. Srinivasan + - Heiko Stuebner + - Jiri Kosina (SUSE) + - Dmitry Torokhov + - Linus Torvalds + - Thierry Reding + - Rik van Riel + - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba) + - Daniel Vetter + - Linus Walleij + - Richard Weinberger + - Dan Williams + - Rafael J. Wysocki + - Arvind Yadav + - Masahiro Yamada + - Wei Yongjun + - Lv Zheng |