linux-kernel - Re: [v8, 2/3] drm/rockchip: Add support for Rockchip Soc RGB output interface

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:41:25 +0800
From:   "sandy.huang" <hjc@...k-chips.com>
To:     Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, eddie.cai.linux@...il.com
Cc:     linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, seanpaul@...omium.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [v8, 2/3] drm/rockchip: Add support for Rockchip Soc RGB output
 interface

Hi heiko and thomas,

the SPDX license identifier is updated by the following patch, please 
help to review, thanks.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10776935/

在 2019/1/18 下午8:34, Heiko Stuebner 写道:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2019, 01:40:03 CET schrieb Thomas Gleixner:
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
>>> +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
>>> + * Author:
>>> + *      Sandy Huang <hjc@...k-chips.com>
>>> + *
>>> + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
>>> + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
>>> + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
>>> + *
>>> + * 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.
>> The licensing in this file and in the corresponding header is broken.
>>
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
>>> +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
>>> + * Author:
>>> + *      Sandy Huang <hjc@...k-chips.com>
>>> + *
>>> + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
>>> + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
>>> + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
>>> + *
>>> + * 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.
>>> + */
>> Both files use the SPDX license identifier for GPL v2 or later, but the
>> license notice is clearly v2 only.
>>
>> So the copyright holder needs to decide which one. And please remove the
>> boiler plate text. It's redundant.
> Not sure how to proceed as I haven't seen Sandy around for quite a bit,
> but the first versions didn't have a SPDX header and were GPL2-only (v1-v4)
> and the SPDX header was added in v5.
>
> So as a stopgap measure, I'd guess we could assume that the copyright
> intended GPL2-only?
>
>
>> Please fix ASAP, add a Fixes tag and cc stable so the inconsistency is
>> fixed in 4.20 as well.
> ok, once we have the direction of change set.
>
>
> Heiko
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