On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Add the full text of the GPL 2.0 license to the LICENSES directory. It was >> copied directly from the COPYING file in the kernel source tree as it >> differs from the public available version of the license in various places >> including the FSF. >> >> Philippe did some research on the GPL2.0 history: >> >> There is NO trustworthy version of an official GPL 2.0 text: the FSF >> official texts are all fubar (if only in small and subtle ways). The FSF >> texts should be authoritative, but then which one? They published more >> GPL 2.0 versions than most. So we would be hard pressed to blame SPDX or >> the OSI for having their own minor variant. >> >> Then in digging further, I found the ONE true original GPL with a file >> time stamp on June 2 1991, 01:50 (AM?, PM? unknown time zone?) ! in an >> old GCC archive. >> >> For the posterity and everyone's enjoyment I have built a git history >> of GPL 2.0 Mark1 to Mark6 >> >> See https://github.com/pombredanne/gpl-history/commits/master/COPYING >> >> I also added a shorter history of the Linux COPYING text. The first >> version in Linus's git tree is based on the very fine and well tuned GPL >> 2 Mark4, the first fully Y2K compliant version of the GPL 2, as you can >> see from the diffs with the former Mark3: that was dangerously stuck in >> the last century. >> >> The current version in is based on a rare GPL 2.0 Mark5.1 aka "Franklin >> St", that I do not have in my history yet and spells "Franklin St." >> rather than "Franklin Street." Therefore there is likely another GPL 2.0 >> version between Mark4 and Mark5 that I have yet to find and may not have >> been caught by the archive.org spiders. Here help and patches welcomed: >> this is likely an important missing link. >> >> Further information about this archaelogical research; >> >> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOFm3uEzRMf261+O-Nm+9HDoEn9RbFjH=5J9i1C2GgMUg2G4LA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Add the required tags for reference and tooling. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thomas you have my cheerful review, this digging was quite fun in fact and I am not half proud of this ending in the kernel doc: thank you. Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
