linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] regulator: mt6323: Add support for MT6323 regulator

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Message-ID: <1453804890.17181.93.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:41:30 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Chen Zhong <chen.zhong@...iatek.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Henry Chen <henryc.chen@...iatek.com>,
	Steven Liu <steven.liu@...iatek.com>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] regulator: mt6323: Add support for MT6323
 regulator

John,

On ma, 2016-01-25 at 12:56 +0100, John Crispin wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/mt6323-regulator.c

> + * 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.
> + *
> + * 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 this file is licensed GPL v2 only.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And, according to include/linux/module.h, this means "GNU Public License
v2 or later".

So I think there's a (subtle) mismatch between the license ident used
for this driver and the comment above.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle