Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Oct 2015 17:27:28 +0200 | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V1] rtc: GPL copyright inconsistency fix |
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On 02/10/2015 at 11:21:11 +0100, Steve Twiss wrote : > From: Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@diasemi.com> > > Fix misleading and inconsistent copyright header wording. > > Alter the copyright header text and MODULE_LICENSE macro to ensure the > GPL v2 licence description is correctly represented. > > It will remove the incorrectly LGPL worded text. Words such as "Library" > from the line "GNU Library General Public License"; and replace the word > "library" with "program" in several other places. > > The copyright should match the GPL v2 description as specified in the GNU > license found here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html > > It should also match this copyright text with the correct MODULE_LICENSE > macro text as found in the kernel: include/linux/module.h > In this case "GNU Public License v2 or later" is linked with "GPL". >
I would have though diasemi would stick to GPL 2 only.
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@diasemi.com> > > --- > > This patch applies against linux-next and v4.3-rc3 > > > > drivers/rtc/rtc-da9063.c | 18 +++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > Applied, thanks.
-- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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