Drivers under MIT, BSD-17-clause, or uncle-Bob's-newest-take-on-PD are all fine, not just GPL. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Not reformatting to fill lines, it'll semi-conflict with another patch that's been acked but not yet pushed. Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst index 24f5aeecee91..9b69fb08b65e 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface is also a rough job. Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we -are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall +are talking about drivers released under a GPL-compatible license here, +if your code doesn't fall under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech <insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>.) If your driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed -- 2.20.1
