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SubjectRE: [RESEND PATCH V2 1/2] input: misc: da9063: OnKey driver
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On 18 April 2015 08:55 Paul Bolle wrote:

> There's still a license mismatch left (it probably got lost in the noise
> when I finally noticed that the header comment mentioned the LGPL in
> V1).
>
> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 13:03 +0100, S Twiss wrote:
> > + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
> > + * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> This states the license is GPL v2 or later.
>
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>
> And, according to include/linux/module.h, this states the license is
> just GPL v2. So I think either the license comment or the license ident
> used in the MODULE_LICENSE() macro needs to change.
>

Got it. Thanks for your comments.
I have altered the MODULE_LICENSE() to be "GPL" instead of "GPL v2".
That should fix it.

That seems to be a fairly common mistake in the kernel. When I did a
straw-poll, around 10% of files came up with "GPL v2" and contained
"any later version" text.

Regards,
Steve.

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