On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 10:03:41AM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote: > MIT is a widely used permissive free software license that is compatible > with the GPLv2 license. This change adds it to the list of compatible > licenses with GPLv2 in the kernel documentation. No, please don't. This isn't a proper place for talking about the different license interactions. > > Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst > index 25ca49f7a..c3465e3aa 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst > @@ -235,9 +235,9 @@ code must be compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License > (GPLv2), which is the license covering the kernel distribution as a whole. > In practice, that means that all code contributions are covered either by > GPLv2 (with, optionally, language allowing distribution under later > -versions of the GPL) or the three-clause BSD license. Any contributions > -which are not covered by a compatible license will not be accepted into the > -kernel. > +versions of the GPL), the three-clause BSD license or the MIT license. You forgot a ',' anyway :( thanks, greg k-h
