Subject: Re: [bug#50347] [RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license.
From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
To: zimoun <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:42:35 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

zimoun schreef op ma 06-09-2021 om 10:23 [+0200]:
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 23:42, Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds a 'suspect-license' linter detecting some suspicious
> > values in the license fields of linux modules:
> 
> I do not know if it is worth to add a linter for really few corner
> cases, IMHO.
> 
> > For zfs, the issue is the CDDL license.  For the others, the issue
> > is the gpl3+ license.  See the article by the SFLC for why this linter
> > detets ZFS:
> > 
> > <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/#footnote-other-ZFS-copyright-holders>;.
> 
> The issue is about distributing binaries, IIUC.  From my point of view,
> a such linter should check X-license packages using any build-system but
> “linked“ to incompatible X-license packages.  Well, I do not know if it
> is worth to automate this since it appears to me really sparse corner
> cases.

It appears that the proposed linter isn't very useful.
Closing.

Greetings,
Maxime