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

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Thu Feb 15 09:40:27 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.

Very good catch, thank you. This one will stay GPL-2.0-only.

Kind regards,
Petr


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