public inbox for kvm@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 9/9] vfio/pci: Cleanup license mess
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:14:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190117231501.654003681@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190117231416.111952141@linutronix.de

The recently added nvlink2 VFIO driver introduced a license conflict in two
files. In both cases the SPDX license identifier is:

  SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+

but the files contain also the following license boiler plate text:

  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation

The latter is GPL-2.9-only and not GPL-2.0=.

Looking deeper. The nvlink source file is derived from vfio_pci_igd.c which
is also licensed under GPL-2.0-only and it can be assumed that the file was
copied and modified. As the original file is licensed GPL-2.0-only it's not
possible to relicense derivative work to GPL-2.0-or-later.

Fix the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate as it is redundant.

Fixes: 7f92891778df ("vfio_pci: Add NVIDIA GV100GL [Tesla V100 SXM2] subdriver")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
---

P.S.: This patch is part of a larger cleanup, but independent of other
      patches and is intended to be picked up by the maintainer directly.

---
 drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h            |    6 +-----
 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c |    6 +-----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
 /*
  * VFIO PCI mmap/mmap_fault tracepoints
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2018 IBM Corp.  All rights reserved.
  *     Author: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */
 
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 /*
  * VFIO PCI NVIDIA Whitherspoon GPU support a.k.a. NVLink2.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2018 IBM Corp.  All rights reserved.
  *     Author: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation.
- *
  * Register an on-GPU RAM region for cacheable access.
  *
  * Derived from original vfio_pci_igd.c:

       reply	other threads:[~2019-01-17 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190117231416.111952141@linutronix.de>
2019-01-17 23:14 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-01-23 20:05   ` [patch 9/9] vfio/pci: Cleanup license mess Alex Williamson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190117231501.654003681@linutronix.de \
    --to=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=aik@ozlabs.ru \
    --cc=alex.williamson@redhat.com \
    --cc=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=kstewart@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mpe@ellerman.id.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox