From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sébastien Szymanski" <sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Pawel Moll" <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Ian Campbell" <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Kumar Gala" <galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:38:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425767935.2300.48.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FACD03DB-5CFC-4C18-A185-1031903E3AAE@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 14:26 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On March 7, 2015 2:12:20 PM PST, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> I was talking about them being treated differently from technological
> standpoint (i.e. the code), not from legal one.
>From a technological standpoint it would be easy to declare "GPL" (or
any other string) to mean "GPL v2 compatible", which is, I think, all
that matters. But license_is_gpl_compatible() doesn't do that. And I
fear that's for a reason. Is my fear unfounded?
> If you want to fix up input drivers I'll take such patch, but I am
> sure more such cases will sneak in unless you also make sure that
> there are tools (such as checkpatch.pl) that can alert developers to
>the inconsistency.
checkpatch.pl crossed my mind too. But in just over a week of checking
the license comments of (a subset of) the submitted patches I've come to
think that just won't work.
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-07 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-06 18:21 [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller Sébastien Szymanski
2015-03-06 18:21 ` Sébastien Szymanski
[not found] ` <1425666099-8365-1-git-send-email-sebastien.szymanski-d2DlULPkwbNWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-06 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] Input: sx8654 - add device tree bindings Sébastien Szymanski
2015-03-06 18:21 ` Sébastien Szymanski
2015-03-06 18:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-06 18:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 0:57 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 0:57 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 12:32 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 21:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 21:54 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 22:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 22:12 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 22:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 22:38 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2015-03-08 4:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-11 10:56 ` MODULE_LICENSE(): "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" (Was: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller) Paul Bolle
2015-03-11 10:56 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-12 0:41 ` Rusty Russell
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