On 06/28/2007 06:30 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
Public domain is GPL compatible.
Would you happen to have an opinion on the attached? I don't so much need it
or anything but I thought about submitting this once when I was working on
some stuff locally. I didn't since I was expecting arguments that public
domain is not so much a license, and how it becomes GPL anyway, ...
Stating that code which one intends to be in the public domain has "GPL and
additional rights" is a bit of a travesty though.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <[email protected]>
Rene.
diff --git a/include/linux/license.h b/include/linux/license.h
index decdbf4..1176471 100644
--- a/include/linux/license.h
+++ b/include/linux/license.h
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ static inline int license_is_gpl_compatible(const char *license)
|| strcmp(license, "GPL and additional rights") == 0
|| strcmp(license, "Dual BSD/GPL") == 0
|| strcmp(license, "Dual MIT/GPL") == 0
- || strcmp(license, "Dual MPL/GPL") == 0);
+ || strcmp(license, "Dual MPL/GPL") == 0
+ || strcmp(license, "Public Domain") == 0);
}
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index e6e0f86..2ecacf8 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
* or MIT license choice]
* "Dual MPL/GPL" [GNU Public License v2
* or Mozilla license choice]
+ * "Public Domain" [Public domain products]
*
* The following other idents are available
*
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