On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > > +    "GPL and additional rights"   Historical variant of expressing 
> > > > that the
> > > > +                                 module source is dual licensed under a
> > > > +                                 GPL v2 variant and MIT license. 
> > > > Please do
> > > > +                                 not use in new code.
> 
> Actually it was a historic fix for the fact that some slimeballs were
> going to use a proposed "BSD" tag and just ship binaries only whilst
> claiming that they were totally compliant with the BSD licence.

Ah, that is valuable information. I spent quite some time NOT to find it :)

Thanks,

        tglx


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