From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932882AbcLHWUe (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:20:34 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:33122 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932796AbcLHWUc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 17:20:32 -0500 Message-ID: <5849DCAC.90408@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:20:28 +0000 From: Sudip Mukherjee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Teddy Wang , gzhou1 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license References: <1480151262-5183-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20161126110245.GA8388@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20161126110245.GA8388@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 26 November 2016 11:02 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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. Sure, I will update the pages with the license text that Teddy sent me and will send you the patch by this weekend. Regards Sudip