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- Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement
- ----------------------------------
- As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software
- is used and how the license for our software is enforced. Compliance with the
- reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term
- sustainability of our software and community.
- Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the
- contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that
- individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our
- community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and
- growth of our software ecosystem. In order to deter unhelpful enforcement
- actions, we agree that it is in the best interests of our development
- community to undertake the following commitment to users of the Linux kernel
- on behalf of ourselves and any successors to our copyright interests:
- Notwithstanding the termination provisions of the GPL-2.0, we agree that
- it is in the best interests of our development community to adopt the
- following provisions of GPL-3.0 as additional permissions under our
- license with respect to any non-defensive assertion of rights under the
- license.
- However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
- from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
- unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
- terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
- fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
- 60 days after the cessation.
- Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
- reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
- violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
- received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
- copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
- your receipt of the notice.
- Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the
- software. We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute
- this software. We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to
- eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or
- enforcement that might limit adoption of our software. We view legal action
- as a last resort, to be initiated only when other community efforts have
- failed to resolve the problem.
- Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feel
- welcome to join us in our efforts on this project. Working together, we will
- be stronger.
- Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company
- we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- - Laura Abbott
- - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro)
- - Andrea Arcangeli
- - Neil Armstrong
- - Jens Axboe
- - Pablo Neira Ayuso
- - Khalid Aziz
- - Ralf Baechle
- - Felipe Balbi
- - Arnd Bergmann
- - Ard Biesheuvel
- - Tim Bird
- - Paolo Bonzini
- - Christian Borntraeger
- - Mark Brown (Linaro)
- - Paul Burton
- - Javier Martinez Canillas
- - Rob Clark
- - Kees Cook (Google)
- - Jonathan Corbet
- - Dennis Dalessandro
- - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux)
- - Hans de Goede
- - Mel Gorman (SUSE)
- - Sven Eckelmann
- - Alex Elder (Linaro)
- - Fabio Estevam
- - Larry Finger
- - Bhumika Goyal
- - Andy Gross
- - Juergen Gross
- - Shawn Guo
- - Ulf Hansson
- - Stephen Hemminger (Microsoft)
- - Tejun Heo
- - Rob Herring
- - Masami Hiramatsu
- - Michal Hocko
- - Simon Horman
- - Johan Hovold (Hovold Consulting AB)
- - Christophe JAILLET
- - Olof Johansson
- - Lee Jones (Linaro)
- - Heiner Kallweit
- - Srinivas Kandagatla
- - Jan Kara
- - Shuah Khan (Samsung)
- - David Kershner
- - Jaegeuk Kim
- - Namhyung Kim
- - Colin Ian King
- - Jeff Kirsher
- - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation)
- - Christian König
- - Vinod Koul
- - Krzysztof Kozlowski
- - Viresh Kumar
- - Aneesh Kumar K.V
- - Julia Lawall
- - Doug Ledford
- - Chuck Lever (Oracle)
- - Daniel Lezcano
- - Shaohua Li
- - Xin Long
- - Tony Luck
- - Catalin Marinas (Arm Ltd)
- - Mike Marshall
- - Chris Mason
- - Paul E. McKenney
- - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
- - David S. Miller
- - Ingo Molnar
- - Kuninori Morimoto
- - Trond Myklebust
- - Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
- - Borislav Petkov
- - Jiri Pirko
- - Josh Poimboeuf
- - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)
- - Guenter Roeck
- - Joerg Roedel
- - Leon Romanovsky
- - Steven Rostedt (VMware)
- - Frank Rowand
- - Ivan Safonov
- - Anna Schumaker
- - Jes Sorensen
- - K.Y. Srinivasan
- - David Sterba (SUSE)
- - Heiko Stuebner
- - Jiri Kosina (SUSE)
- - Willy Tarreau
- - Dmitry Torokhov
- - Linus Torvalds
- - Thierry Reding
- - Rik van Riel
- - Luis R. Rodriguez
- - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba)
- - Eduardo Valentin (Amazon.com)
- - Daniel Vetter
- - Linus Walleij
- - Richard Weinberger
- - Dan Williams
- - Rafael J. Wysocki
- - Arvind Yadav
- - Masahiro Yamada
- - Wei Yongjun
- - Lv Zheng
- - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd)
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