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From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: LICENSES: Missing ISC text & possibly a category ("Not recommended" vs. "Preferred licenses")
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 23:25:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACna6rz_Ms2Uv1P6E0gCGNsRwK4nm=PMAOaJ5Uk9aJxs2VSamQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
Due to some maintainers *preferring* BSD-compatible license for DTS
files [0], I was writing mine using ISC. I had no very special reason
for it: I was choosing between BSD-2-Clause, MIT and ISC. I've chosen
ISC as I read about its "removal of language deemed unnecessary".
I took a moment to look at the new SPDX thing and noticed that:
1) File license-rules.rst provides "LICENSES/other/ISC" as an example
2) License file LICENSES/other/ISC doesn't exist
3) ISC is listed as an *example* under the "Not recommended licenses"
First of all, as ISC is used by some files in the Linux kernel, I
think it's worth adding to the LICENSE/*/ISC.
Secondly, it isn't 100% clear to me if ISC is preferred or not
recommended. File license-rules.rst suggests the later by listing it
as an example for "Not recommended". It's just an example though, so
I'm not 100% sure without seeing it in either: "preferred" or "other"
directories. Also if anyone finds it "Not recommended", can we get a
short explanation why is it so, please?
[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/707
--
Rafał
next reply other threads:[~2018-04-28 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-28 21:25 Rafał Miłecki [this message]
2018-04-29 5:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-29 7:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-04-29 7:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-04-29 10:15 ` Rafał Miłecki
2018-04-30 0:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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