[LTP] [PATCH 3/3] tree: Relicense GPL-2.0 (v2 only) => GPL-2.0-or-later

Martin Doucha mdoucha@suse.cz
Wed Feb 14 18:52:07 CET 2024


On 14. 02. 24 18:09, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Cc: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> Cc: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
> Cc: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sorry to steal your time with license cleanup.
> 
> LTP started as GPL v2 only around 2001. Later new tests were changed to
> GPL v2+. When we later started using SPDX, we use GPL-2.0 which actually
> means GPL-2.0-only. Please if you agree with changing GPL-2.0-or-later
> for tests you wrote ack this (or send a patch where you change it if you
> prefer). If you don't agree or you don't reply your files will stay
> GPL v2 only (just SPDX will be changed to GPL-2.0-only to be obvious.)
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
> Martin Doucha
> testcases/kernel/syscalls/ptrace/ptrace08.c

I would ack licence change for ptrace08 but it's based on a reproducer 
by Andrew Lutomirsky which is licensed under GPL-2.0:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/593

Therefore my ack is not sufficient.

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