On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:49:04AM +0100, Werner Sembach wrote: > Hello, > > Am 14.11.24 um 11:31 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: > > Hello, > > > > the kernel modules provided by Tuxedo on > > https://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/packages/tuxedo-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://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/113423314337991594 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://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/packages/tuxedo-drivers/-/commit/a8c09b6c2ce6393fe39d8652d133af9f06cfb427). > > As already being implied by that commit message, this is sadly not an issue > that can be sorted out over night. > > We ended up in this situation as MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") on its own does not > hint at GPL v2, if one is not aware of the license definition table in the > documentation. That's why it is documented, to explain this very thing. Please don't suggest that documenting this is somehow not providing a hint. That's just not going to fly with any lawyer who reads any of this, sorry. greg k-h
