On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 05:50:31PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > 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. > > Please, keep it V2 or later, if you can. It makes sharing code with U-Boot (for > example) easier. > > There's long tradition of "V2 or later" code in the kernel. And there's even longer "v2 only" tradition as well. It's up to the person / company submitting the code to pick the license for it, let them make the decision please. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
