linux-kernel - Re: [Device-mainlining] [PATCH v2 2/3] gadget: Introduce the usb charger framework

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Message-ID: <20151008170405.GA26188@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2015 19:04:05 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...ymobile.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
	"patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com" 
	<patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"r.baldyga@...sung.com" <r.baldyga@...sung.com>,
	"sojka@...ica.cz" <sojka@...ica.cz>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Peter Chen <peter.chen@...escale.com>,
	"sre@...nel.org" <sre@...nel.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	"device-mainlining@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
	<device-mainlining@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	"yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com" <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: [Device-mainlining] [PATCH v2 2/3] gadget: Introduce the usb
 charger framework

Hi!

> > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > > * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > 
> > Please, keep it V2 or later, if you can. It makes sharing code with U-Boot (for
> > example) easier.
> > 
> > There's long tradition of "V2 or later" code in the kernel.
> 
> And there's even longer "v2 only" tradition as well.  It's up to the
> person / company submitting the code to pick the license for it, let
> them make the decision please.

You wrote:

>> + *
>> + * 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.
>
>I have to ask, do you really mean "any later version"?

Given that you are quite high-level maintainer, that does not sound exactly
like "let them make the decision". It sounds like a pressure to change the
license to the one you liked. WHy did you have to ask?

									Pavel
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