Hi Greg, On March 5, 2016 7:39:13 PM GMT+00:00, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 02 2016, Felipe F. Tonello wrote: >> >>> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ >> >>> * Copyright (C) 2006 Thumtronics Pty Ltd. >> >>> * Ben Williamson <ben.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> * >> >>> - * Licensed under the GPL-2 or later. >> >>> + * Licensed under the GPLv2. >> >> > On March 4, 2016 7:17:31 PM GMT+00:00, Michal Nazarewicz ><mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Any particular reason to do that? >> >> On Fri, Mar 04 2016, Felipe Ferreri Tonello wrote: >> > Because the kernel is v2 only and not later. >> >> Linux as a whole is GPLv2 only, but that doesn’t necessarily mean >that >> parts of it cannot be dual licensed (or GPLv2+). It’s safer to leave >> copyright noticed clear unless you explicitly want your contribution >be >> GPLv2 only which brings the whole file GPLv2 only. > >But you can't change the license of someone else's code, which is what >is happening here. Felipe T, you can't do that at all unless you want >to get into big trouble, please consult a lawyer for all of the gory >details. Thanks for letting me know. TBH, I had no idea about it. Felipe -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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
