From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Bolle Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1425767935.2300.48.camel@x220> References: <1425666099-8365-1-git-send-email-sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com> <20150306182155.GB4540@dtor-ws> <20150307005717.GD26151@dtor-ws> <1425731545.2281.3.camel@tiscali.nl> <20150307212543.GA38770@dtor-ws> <1425765281.2300.17.camel@x220> <64C774DE-93CD-41FB-AF78-301503025592@gmail.com> <1425766340.2300.29.camel@x220> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Szymanski , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 14:26 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On March 7, 2015 2:12:20 PM PST, Paul Bolle 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