From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>, Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
"Sébastien Szymanski" <sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Pawel Moll" <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Ian Campbell" <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Kumar Gala" <galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE(): "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" (Was: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:11:08 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2ynxd23.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426071405.4244.88.camel@x220>
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> writes:
> [Added Rusty and Dave.]
>
> On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 20:51 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:38:55PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> > From a technological standpoint it would be easy to declare "GPL" (or
>> > any other string) to mean "GPL v2 compatible", which is, I think, all
>> > that matters. But license_is_gpl_compatible() doesn't do that. And I
>> > fear that's for a reason. Is my fear unfounded?
>>
>> Well we might ask Rusty on the off chance that he remembers but my guess
>> would be that he added "GPL v2" in addition to "GPL" and other license
>> stings because at the time there was one driver,
>> drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c, that used MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2").
Yes, people screw this up. But that's mainly because they don't care
either :)
Cheers,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-06 18:21 [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller Sébastien Szymanski
2015-03-06 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] Input: sx8654 - add device tree bindings Sébastien Szymanski
2015-03-06 18:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 0:57 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 12:32 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 21:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 21:54 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 22:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 22:12 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-07 22:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-07 22:38 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-08 4:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-11 10:56 ` MODULE_LICENSE(): "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" (Was: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller) Paul Bolle
2015-03-12 0:41 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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