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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] Input: add support for Semtech SX8654 I2C touchscreen controller
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On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 14:26 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On March 7, 2015 2:12:20 PM PST, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> I was talking about them being treated differently from technological
> standpoint (i.e. the code), not from legal one.

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?

> If you want to fix up input drivers I'll take such patch, but I am
> sure more such cases will sneak in unless you also make sure that
> there are tools (such as checkpatch.pl) that can alert developers to
>the inconsistency.

checkpatch.pl crossed my mind too. But in just over a week of checking
the license comments of (a subset of) the submitted patches I've come to
think that just won't work.


Paul Bolle



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