Re: [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license?

Pavel Machek
2019-08-15T07:59:31Z

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On Thu 2019-08-15 09:51:32, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:13:50AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I realize that "interesting" license is not on a list of bugs suitable
> > for -stable, but on the other hand, this tends to scare corporate
> > lawyers... so perhaps we should remove the driver in -stable, too?
> >
> > Upstream commit id is 441bf7332d55c4d34afae9ffc3bbec621093f4d1.
> >
> > 4.19 has the problematic driver, 4.4 does not.
>
> If a lawyer has issues with this, please just upgrade to the latest
> kernel release :)

We are talking this project:
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start .
Upgrading is not an option, but I can take the patch locally.

If someone has confirmation that "interesting" license is a mistake
and it is indeed GPL, that would be nice, too.

Best regards,

Pavel
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