linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Add support for Richtek rt9455 battery charger

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Date:	Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:00:01 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Anda-Maria Nicolae <anda-maria.nicolae@...el.com>
Cc:	sre@...nel.org, dbaryshkov@...il.com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
	pawel.moll@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
	ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk, galak@...eaurora.org,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Add support for Richtek rt9455 battery
 charger

Just a single nit: a license mismatch.

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 10:57 +0300, Anda-Maria Nicolae wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/power/rt9455_charger.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
(only) GPL v2. So I think either the license comment or the ident used
in the MODULE_LICENSE() macro should be changed.


Paul Bolle

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