Re: [patch V5 02/11] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license

[Philippe Ombredanne]

Thomas,

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <jonas@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 |  353 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 353 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/GPL-2.0
>
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> @@ -0,0 +1,353 @@
> +Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html
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My review still stands in this updated version. Thanks :D

Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>

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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne