Re: [v8, 2/3] drm/rockchip: Add support for Rockchip Soc RGB output interface

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Hi Thomas,

Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2019, 01:40:03 CET schrieb Thomas Gleixner:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
> > +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
> > + * Author:
> > + *      Sandy Huang <hjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > + *
> > + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
> > + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
> The licensing in this file and in the corresponding header is broken.
> 
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> > +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
> > + * Author:
> > + *      Sandy Huang <hjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > + *
> > + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
> > + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + */
> 
> Both files use the SPDX license identifier for GPL v2 or later, but the
> license notice is clearly v2 only.
> 
> So the copyright holder needs to decide which one. And please remove the
> boiler plate text. It's redundant.

Not sure how to proceed as I haven't seen Sandy around for quite a bit,
but the first versions didn't have a SPDX header and were GPL2-only (v1-v4)
and the SPDX header was added in v5.

So as a stopgap measure, I'd guess we could assume that the copyright
intended GPL2-only?


> Please fix ASAP, add a Fixes tag and cc stable so the inconsistency is
> fixed in 4.20 as well.

ok, once we have the direction of change set.


Heiko



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