Licensing clarification

Open rde1024 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

What are the licensing terms of the kernel patch in Code/kernel/devterm-4.19_v01.patch ? It seems to be GPL-3.0 due to the LICENSE file, but that's not compatible with GPL-2.0, under which terms the Linux kernel is distributed. I would expect one of these licenses for this patch:

GPL-2.0
GPL-2.0+
LGPL-2.0
LGPL-2.0+
LGPL-2.1
LGPL-2.1+

Same goes for the patches in Code/patch/armbian_build_a06/ . I suspect some of these are completely Rockchip's work and that none of them were licensed as GPL-3.0 by their copyright holders, but this is not documented (except that certain files created by these patches have comments indicating GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0+).

(Changing the repo-wide LICENSE file to GPL-2.0+ would trivially fix this issue.)

Dec 19 '21 18:12 rde1024

I updated LICENSE but it seems that github only provide LGPL2.1, does LGPL2.1 enough to cover this issue?

Dec 20 '21 05:12 cuu