On Thu Nov 14, 2024 at 11:31 AM CET, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > the kernel modules provided by Tuxedo on > https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=2f239e82-70bfb7a8-2f2215cd-000babe598f7-32952349600b722d&q=1&e=9535a8fa-5a9d-4d94-a12d-ff39b9d3b9cf&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Ftuxedocomputers%2Fdevelopment%2Fpackages%2Ftuxedo-drivers > are licensed under GPLv3 or later. This is incompatible with the > kernel's license and so makes it impossible for distributions and other > third parties to support these at least in pre-compiled form and so > limits user experience and the possibilities to work on mainlining these > drivers. > > This incompatibility is created on purpose to control the upstream > process. See https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=12fa0a06-4d66232c-12fb8149-000babe598f7-5be6d19feac11441&q=1&e=9535a8fa-5a9d-4d94-a12d-ff39b9d3b9cf&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffosstodon.org%2F%40kernellogger%2F113423314337991594 for > a nice summary of the situation and some further links about the issue. > > Note that the pull request that fixed the MODULE_LICENSE invocations to > stop claiming GPL(v2) compatibility was accepted and then immediately > reverted "for the time being until the legal stuff is sorted out" > (https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=80a9845b-df35ad71-80a80f14-000babe598f7-b5ddbbaedbccb553&q=1&e=9535a8fa-5a9d-4d94-a12d-ff39b9d3b9cf&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Ftuxedocomputers%2Fdevelopment%2Fpackages%2Ftuxedo-drivers%2F-%2Fcommit%2Fa8c09b6c2ce6393fe39d8652d133af9f06cfb427). This commit did not remove the license boilerplate as this other one [1] upstream did. So I think the license was still inconsistent. [1] 1a59d1b8e05ea6ab45f7e18897de1ef0e6bc3da6 ("treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 15"). > > Best regards > Uwe > > Uwe Kleine-König (2): > module: Put known GPL offenders in an array > module: Block modules by Tuxedo from accessing GPL symbols > > kernel/module/main.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > base-commit: 28955f4fa2823e39f1ecfb3a37a364563527afbc
