Re: [PATCH 6/6] crypto: add jitterentropy RNG

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

A nit only, I'm afraid: this patch adds a license mismatch.

On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 21:25 +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/crypto/jitterentropy.c

> + * License
> + * =======
> + *
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> + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> + * are met:
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> + * 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
> + *    products derived from this software without specific prior
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> + *
> + * ALTERNATIVELY, this product may be distributed under the terms of
> + * the GNU General Public License, in which case the provisions of the GPL2 are
> + * required INSTEAD OF the above restrictions.  (This clause is
> + * necessary due to a potential bad interaction between the GPL and
> + * the restrictions contained in a BSD-style copyright.)
> + *
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This states the license is BSD or GPL v2.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And, according to inlude/linux/module.h, using
    MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

here would match that statement.


Paul Bolle