Re: [PATCH v3] media: i2c: add support for omnivision's ov2659 sensor

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 15:21 +0000, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov2659.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,1495 @@
> +/*
> + * Omnivision OV2659 CMOS Image Sensor driver
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2015 Texas Instruments, Inc.
> + *
> + * Benoit Parrot <bparrot@ti.com>
> + * Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> + * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
> + *
> + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> + * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> + * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> + * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
> + * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
> + * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
> + * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
> + * SOFTWARE.
> + */

This states the license of this modules is GPL v2.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

So you probably want
    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

here.

(If you think this is a bit silly, and somewhere I think so too, you're
invited to jump into the discussion starting at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/7/119 .)



Paul Bolle