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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: raw-gadget: upgrade license identifier
    On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
    <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
    >
    > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:32:36PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@linux.dev wrote:
    > > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
    > >
    > > Most of the USB gadget modules are licensed as GPL-2.0+. There is no
    > > reason not to allow using Raw Gadget code under a newer GPL version.
    > >
    > > Change SPDX identifier from GPL-2.0 to GPL-2.0+.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
    > >
    > > ---
    > >
    > > I don't know whether such license change is possible and what it
    > > requires.
    >
    > It requires the copyright holder to agree to change the license, as well
    > as anyone who as contributed to it. If you so desire to do this, please
    > work with them and get the lawyers for those entities to sign off on the
    > patch and I will be glad to take it.

    Ah, never mind this patch then. I don't care enough to bother with
    this. I'm not even sure what the difference is, but having less
    restrictions seems better.

    I wonder if checkpatch could alert about considering GPL-2.0+ when
    adding new files.

    Thanks!

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