On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:52:50AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
> > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Regmap SoundWire MBQ Module");
> > > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> > > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> >
> > Why do you want to change this ?
>
> We only use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") for new contributions since 'GPL v2' does
> not bring any information on the license, is equivalent to 'GPL' and only
> exists for 'historical reasons', see
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/license-rules.html
>
>
> “GPL” Module is licensed under GPL version 2. This does not express any
> distinction between GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later. The exact license
> information can only be determined via the license information in the
> corresponding source files.
>
> “GPL v2” Same as “GPL”. It exists for historic reasons.
>
> We should have used 'GPL' in the initial regmap MBQ patch but didn't for
> some reason, this change just realigns with what we intended.
>
> That said, this is unrelated to this no_pm patch so could be in a separate
> one if you preferred it that way.
It should be separate as it does not have anything to do with the real
reason this patch was submitted.
thanks,
greg k-h
