On 05-12-20, 17:31, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
Precisely, this should be a separate patch explaining the motivation
behind this change.
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~Vinod
