FE package kernel module guidelines and openafs

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 20:00:16 UTC 2005


On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:29:55AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

 > I know this is a holy war waiting to happen, so I'm going to amend the
 > list of "acceptable kernel module licenses" to GNU General Public 
 > License v2.0, GNU Lesser General Public License v2, IBM Public License
 > v1.0, Common Public License v0.5, Q Public License v1.0, Open Software
 > License v1.1, and any open source license granted by Red Hat.

Sure we can distribute them, but as not all of those are GPL compatible,
they will taint your kernel on loading them.

The only ones that don't are "GPL", "GPL v2", "GPL and additional rights",
"Dual BSD/GPL" and "Dual MPL/GPL".

		Dave




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