Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:29:37 +0100 | From | Antoine Tenart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: macsec: convert to SPDX |
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Hi Andrew,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 02:11:18PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > That's right, I'll fix it in v2. In such cases, the license text takes > > precedence over the MODULE_LICENSE() definition ? > > I've also not seen any real discussion about this. But when i recently > proposed patches to cleanup similar issues in drivers/net/phy, i gave > the license text precedence, since it is a lot easier for a human to > understand, and it is likely a human made the error....
I would go for this as well, it seems logical for MODULE_LICENSE() to only be an identifier of what the license described in the license text is.
Thanks! Antoine
-- Antoine Ténart, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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