From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, 50347@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#50347] [RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:23:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868s0ajenb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c4caf742c5dbe2a02aede2b20ff80eae7bc352a.camel@telenet.be>
Hi Maxime,
On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 23:42, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
> This patch adds a 'suspect-license' linter detecting some suspicious
> values in the license fields of linux modules:
I do not know if it is worth to add a linter for really few corner
cases, IMHO.
> For zfs, the issue is the CDDL license. For the others, the issue
> is the gpl3+ license. See the article by the SFLC for why this linter
> detets ZFS:
>
> <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/#footnote-other-ZFS-copyright-holders>.
The issue is about distributing binaries, IIUC. From my point of view,
a such linter should check X-license packages using any build-system but
“linked“ to incompatible X-license packages. Well, I do not know if it
is worth to automate this since it appears to me really sparse corner
cases.
Cheers,
simon
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2021-09-02 21:42 [bug#50347] [RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license Maxime Devos
2021-09-02 22:20 ` Maxime Devos
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