Luis Chamberlain
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Add the full text of the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license to the kernel tree as well as the required tags for reference and tooling. The license text was copied directly from the copyleft-next project's git tree [0]. Discussion of using copyleft-next-0.3.1 on Linux started since June, 2016 [1]. In the end Linus' preference was to have drivers use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") to make it clear that the GPL applies when it comes to Linux [2]. Additionally, even though copyleft-next-0.3.1 has been found to be to be GPLv2 compatible by three attorneys at SUSE and Redhat [3], to err on the side of caution we simply recommend to always use the "OR" language for this license [4]. Even though it has been a goal of the project to be GPL-v2 compatible to be certain in 2016 I asked for a clarification about what makes copyleft-next GPLv2 compatible and also asked for a summary of benefits. This prompted some small minor changes to make compatibility even further clear and as of cop...
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