On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:32:36PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Most of the USB gadget modules are licensed as GPL-2.0+. There is no > > reason not to allow using Raw Gadget code under a newer GPL version. > > > > Change SPDX identifier from GPL-2.0 to GPL-2.0+. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > I don't know whether such license change is possible and what it > > requires. > > It requires the copyright holder to agree to change the license, as well > as anyone who as contributed to it. If you so desire to do this, please > work with them and get the lawyers for those entities to sign off on the > patch and I will be glad to take it. Ah, never mind this patch then. I don't care enough to bother with this. I'm not even sure what the difference is, but having less restrictions seems better. I wonder if checkpatch could alert about considering GPL-2.0+ when adding new files. Thanks!
