On 17 August 2015 at 23:25, Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 08/16/2015 08:03 PM, Baolin Wang via device-mainlining wrote: >> On 14 August 2015 at 23:27, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:47:45PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: >>>> + * >>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>>> + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >>>> + * (at your option) any later version. >>> >>> I have to ask, do you really mean "any later version"? >>> >> >> I think I did not get your point, could you explain it detailedly? > > The full kernel is licensed under v2 of the GPL only, not "any later version". > See the second paragraph at the top of the COPYING file in the root directory > of the kernel source tree. There are differences on individual files, but > having this file allow "any later version" makes it different from much of > rest of the kernel. > > Unless you have a specific reason to allow greater-than-V2 GPL licensing on this > file, you should change the licensing clause. The following wording appears > to be pretty popular: > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > * published by the Free Software Foundation. > Hi Tim, Make sense of it. Thanks for your explanation. > -- Tim -- Baolin.wang Best Regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
