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[RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license.

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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 50347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: [bug#50347] [RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:23:52 +0200

Hi Maxime,

On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 23:42, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> 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.

Cheers,
simon

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