[dm-devel] multipath-tools licenses (was Re: [PATCH] multipath-tools: replace FSF address with a www pointer)
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 22:24:53 UTC 2018
On 03/26/2018 06:07 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> If we can limit the project to two (or if necessary 3) licenses, we can
> just include all the license files, and explain what applies to what
> in the README. I haven't really looked at how other projects that have
> multiple licenses for parts of their code do things, so perhaps there is
> a more standard way.
Multiple licences, for modules, are accepted in the Linux kernel:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/module.h#n171
And the SPDX License Identifier is being used:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
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