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Message-ID: <1427230023.10958.28.camel@x220>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:47:03 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:	virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:DRM DRIVERS" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"open list:VIRTIO CORE, NET..." 
	<virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"open list:ABI/API" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.

Just a license nit.

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:07 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
> +/*
> + * 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * All Rights Reserved.
> + *
> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> + * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> + * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> + * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> + * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> + * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> + *
> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
> + * paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> + * Software.
> + *
> + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> + * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
> + * VA LINUX SYSTEMS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
> + * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
> + * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> + * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

I wouldn't know (without further, well, research) which license this is.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

But I'm pretty sure it's not GPL v2 or later. So I think the license
mentioned in the comment at the top of this file and the license "ident"
used in this macro do not match.


Paul Bolle

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