Re: LESS copyright, not more!

[dude <forum4@dwaves.de>]

Linus: the (GPL 2.0) intented social contract is: “i give you sourcecode, give me back your changes”

https://dwaves.de/2022/01/31/why-is-it-gnu-linux-and-not-just-linux-linus-talking-about-gpl-v3-vs-gpl-v2-the-better-one-the-social-gpl-contract-is-i-give-you-sourcecode-give-me-back-your-changes-non-free-binary/

if the developer does not want-need changes back GPL 3.0 is also "okayish"

the kernel licensing is also rather... complicated... (with the many different versions of GPL and LGPL) maybe a user can do a 30min entertaining sum up video explanation of this ...

• Linux kernel licensing rules

• The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only (GPL-2.0), as provided in LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0, with an explicit syscall exception described in LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note, as described in the COPYING file.This documentation file provides a description of how each source file should be annotated to make its license clear and unambiguous. It doesn’t replace the Kernel’s license.The license described in the COPYING file applies to the kernel source as a whole, though individual source files can have a different license which is required to be compatible with the GPL-2.0:

  GPL-1.0+  :  GNU General Public License v1.0 or later
  GPL-2.0+  :  GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0?h=v5.17-rc2
  LGPL-2.0  :  GNU Library General Public License v2 only
  LGPL-2.0+ :  GNU Library General Public License v2 or later
  LGPL-2.1  :  GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only
  LGPL-2.1+ :  GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later
  

  src: https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html

• actually there is a whole folder “LICENCE” that is shipped with the kernel sources, which has the following subfolders:
  • deprecated
  • dual
  • exceptions
  • preferred
• here is a list of all sorts of free licences https://spdx.org/licenses/ (RSS Feed)

PS: yes iterating over this stuff takes time, anyone ever read the whole GPL 2.0?

actually did - entertainment factor was... okay

On 2/9/22 10:45, Gard Spreemann wrote:

> The Social Contract says clearly:
>     "Our priorities are our users and free software"
>