Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | 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 |
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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.
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