From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751865AbcKZLCz (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:02:55 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37916 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751072AbcKZLCr (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Nov 2016 06:02:47 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:02:45 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sudip Mukherjee Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Teddy Wang , gzhou1 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license Message-ID: <20161126110245.GA8388@kroah.com> References: <1480151262-5183-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1480151262-5183-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > The driver was actually released with BSD license. It also gained GPL > when it was submitted to be included in the kernel. > > Cc: Teddy Wang > Cc: gzhou1 > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee > --- > drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c > index 2d22c51..e9632f1 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c > @@ -1243,4 +1243,4 @@ static void __exit lynxfb_exit(void) > MODULE_AUTHOR("monk liu "); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Sudip Mukherjee "); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Frame buffer driver for SM750 chipset"); > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); > +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); Should you also update the top of the files that don't say anything about licenses? I'll take this patch, but an update for them would also be good. thanks, greg k-h