Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst

   1 Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement
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   3
   4 As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software
   5 is used and how the license for our software is enforced.  Compliance with the
   6 reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term
   7 sustainability of our software and community.
   8
   9 Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the
  10 contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that
  11 individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our
  12 community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and
  13 growth of our software ecosystem.  In order to deter unhelpful enforcement
  14 actions, we agree that it is in the best interests of our development
  15 community to undertake the following commitment to users of the Linux kernel
  16 on behalf of ourselves and any successors to our copyright interests:
  17
  18     Notwithstanding the termination provisions of the GPL-2.0, we agree that
  19     it is in the best interests of our development community to adopt the
  20     following provisions of GPL-3.0 as additional permissions under our
  21     license with respect to any non-defensive assertion of rights under the
  22     license.
  23
  24         However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
  25         from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
  26         unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
  27         terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
  28         fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
  29         60 days after the cessation.
  30
  31         Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
  32         reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
  33         violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
  34         received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
  35         copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
  36         your receipt of the notice.
  37
  38 Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the
  39 software.  We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute
  40 this software.  We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to
  41 eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or
  42 enforcement that might limit adoption of our software.  We view legal action
  43 as a last resort, to be initiated only when other community efforts have
  44 failed to resolve the problem.
  45
  46 Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feel
  47 welcome to join us in our efforts on this project.  Working together, we will
  48 be stronger.
  49
  50 Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company
  51 we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
  52
  53   - Laura Abbott
  54   - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro)
  55   - Andrea Arcangeli
  56   - Neil Armstrong
  57   - Jens Axboe
  58   - Pablo Neira Ayuso
  59   - Khalid Aziz
  60   - Ralf Baechle
  61   - Felipe Balbi
  62   - Arnd Bergmann
  63   - Ard Biesheuvel
  64   - Tim Bird
  65   - Paolo Bonzini
  66   - Christian Borntraeger
  67   - Mark Brown (Linaro)
  68   - Paul Burton
  69   - Javier Martinez Canillas
  70   - Rob Clark
  71   - Jonathan Corbet
  72   - Dennis Dalessandro
  73   - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux)
  74   - Hans de Goede
  75   - Mel Gorman (SUSE)
  76   - Sven Eckelmann
  77   - Alex Elder (Linaro)
  78   - Fabio Estevam
  79   - Larry Finger
  80   - Bhumika Goyal
  81   - Andy Gross
  82   - Juergen Gross
  83   - Shawn Guo
  84   - Ulf Hansson
  85   - Stephen Hemminger (Microsoft)
  86   - Tejun Heo
  87   - Rob Herring
  88   - Masami Hiramatsu
  89   - Michal Hocko
  90   - Simon Horman
  91   - Johan Hovold (Hovold Consulting AB)
  92   - Christophe JAILLET
  93   - Olof Johansson
  94   - Lee Jones (Linaro)
  95   - Heiner Kallweit
  96   - Srinivas Kandagatla
  97   - Jan Kara
  98   - Shuah Khan (Samsung)
  99   - David Kershner
 100   - Jaegeuk Kim
 101   - Namhyung Kim
 102   - Colin Ian King
 103   - Jeff Kirsher
 104   - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation)
 105   - Christian König
 106   - Vinod Koul
 107   - Krzysztof Kozlowski
 108   - Viresh Kumar
 109   - Aneesh Kumar K.V
 110   - Julia Lawall
 111   - Doug Ledford
 112   - Chuck Lever (Oracle)
 113   - Daniel Lezcano
 114   - Shaohua Li
 115   - Xin Long
 116   - Tony Luck
 117   - Catalin Marinas (Arm Ltd)
 118   - Mike Marshall
 119   - Chris Mason
 120   - Paul E. McKenney
 121   - David S. Miller
 122   - Ingo Molnar
 123   - Kuninori Morimoto
 124   - Trond Myklebust
 125   - Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
 126   - Borislav Petkov
 127   - Jiri Pirko
 128   - Josh Poimboeuf
 129   - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)
 130   - Guenter Roeck
 131   - Joerg Roedel
 132   - Leon Romanovsky
 133   - Steven Rostedt (VMware)
 134   - Frank Rowand
 135   - Ivan Safonov
 136   - Anna Schumaker
 137   - Jes Sorensen
 138   - K.Y. Srinivasan
 139   - Heiko Stuebner
 140   - Jiri Kosina (SUSE)
 141   - Willy Tarreau
 142   - Dmitry Torokhov
 143   - Linus Torvalds
 144   - Thierry Reding
 145   - Rik van Riel
 146   - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba)
 147   - Eduardo Valentin (Amazon.com)
 148   - Daniel Vetter
 149   - Linus Walleij
 150   - Richard Weinberger
 151   - Dan Williams
 152   - Rafael J. Wysocki
 153   - Arvind Yadav
 154   - Masahiro Yamada
 155   - Wei Yongjun
 156   - Lv Zheng
 157   - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd)