linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/17] tty: remove MODULE

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Date:   Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:52:25 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] tty: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Again, I strongly feel that removing MODULE_LICENSE() lines from files
> that just don't happen to be built as a module is not ok as no other
> MODULE_*() macro has this arbitrary restriction.

Yes.  And it should probably have a use in the kernel by checking that
nothing license-incompatible ever gets linked into mvlinux.
At least until we can parse the SPDX tags directly and make use of that
instead.