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submitting-patches
coding-style
email-clients
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Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are:
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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.
+
+ - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro)
+ - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat)
+ - Neil Armstrong
+ - Jens Axboe
+ - Pablo Neira Ayuso
+ - Khalid Aziz
+ - Ralf Baechle
+ - Felipe Balbi
+ - Arnd Bergmann
+ - Ard Biesheuvel
+ - Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat)
+ - Christian Borntraeger
+ - Mark Brown (Linaro)
+ - Paul Burton
+ - Javier Martinez Canillas
+ - Rob Clark
+ - Jonathan Corbet
+ - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux)
+ - Hans de Goede (Red Hat)
+ - Mel Gorman (SUSE)
+ - Sven Eckelmann
+ - Alex Elder (Linaro)
+ - Fabio Estevam
+ - Larry Finger
+ - Bhumika Goyal
+ - Andy Gross
+ - Juergen Gross
+ - Shawn Guo
+ - Ulf Hansson
+ - 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 (Red Hat)
+ - Chuck Lever (Oracle)
+ - Daniel Lezcano
+ - Shaohua Li
+ - Xin Long (Red Hat)
+ - Tony Luck
+ - Mike Marshall
+ - Chris Mason
+ - Paul E. McKenney
+ - David S. Miller
+ - Ingo Molnar
+ - Kuninori Morimoto
+ - Borislav Petkov
+ - Jiri Pirko
+ - Josh Poimboeuf
+ - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)
+ - Guenter Roeck
+ - Joerg Roedel
+ - Leon Romanovsky
+ - Steven Rostedt (VMware)
+ - Ivan Safonov
+ - Ivan Safonov
+ - Anna Schumaker
+ - Jes Sorensen
+ - K.Y. Srinivasan
+ - Heiko Stuebner
+ - Jiri Kosina (SUSE)
+ - Dmitry Torokhov
+ - Linus Torvalds
+ - Thierry Reding
+ - Rik van Riel
+ - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba)
+ - Daniel Vetter
+ - Linus Walleij
+ - Richard Weinberger
+ - Dan Williams
+ - Rafael J. Wysocki
+ - Arvind Yadav
+ - Masahiro Yamada
+ - Wei Yongjun
+ - Lv Zheng