From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org, apw@canonical.com,
joe@perches.com, dwaipayanray1@gmail.com,
lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com, kernel@sberdevices.ru,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rockosov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add missing bindings license check
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:53:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230321215337.GA1656483-robh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230320203350.13696-1-ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:33:50PM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> All headers from 'include/dt-bindings/' must be verified by checkpatch
> together with Documentation bindings, because all of them are part of
> the whole DT bindings system.
>
> The requirement is dual licensed and matching pattern:
> /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/
This is not correct. The headers can and should be licensed like the dts
files which are (unfortunately) all over the place and differ from the
bindings.
Also, GPL-2.0-or-later is neither desired nor encouraged.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-21 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 20:33 [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add missing bindings license check Dmitry Rokosov
2023-03-20 22:40 ` Joe Perches
2023-03-21 6:30 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-03-21 21:53 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2023-03-22 10:26 ` Dmitry Rokosov
2023-03-22 13:40 ` Rob Herring
2023-03-22 14:14 ` Dmitry Rokosov
2023-03-22 14:36 ` Rob Herring
2023-03-22 14:56 ` Dmitry Rokosov
2023-03-23 8:51 ` Dmitry Rokosov
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