linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] TTY: add support for uart

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 10:31:01 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	GTA04 owners <gta04-owner@...delico.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] TTY: add support for uart_slave devices.

Just a nit: a license mismatch.

On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 11:56 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/slave/uart_slave_core.c

> + *    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.
> + *
> + *    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.

This states the license is GPL v2 or later.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

And, according to include/linux/module.h, this states the license is
just GPL v2. So I think either the comment at the top of this file or
the license ident used in the MODULE_LICENSE() macro needs to change.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

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