Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:59:27 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license? |
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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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |