linux-kernel - Re: [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license?

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Message-ID: <20190815084406.GC3512@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:06 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org,
        matthias.bgg@...il.com, neil@...wn.name,
        thirtythreeforty@...il.com, christian@...mp.de,
        nishadkamdar@...il.com, ser.perschin@...il.com, blogic@...nwrt.org,
        jan.kiszka@...mens.com
Subject: Re: [stable] Deleting "mt7621-mmc" with "interesting" license?

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:59:27AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2019-08-15 09:51:32, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:13:50AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I realize that "interesting" license is not on a list of bugs suitable
> > > for -stable, but on the other hand, this tends to scare corporate
> > > lawyers... so perhaps we should remove the driver in -stable, too?
> > > 
> > > Upstream commit id is 441bf7332d55c4d34afae9ffc3bbec621093f4d1.
> > > 
> > > 4.19 has the problematic driver, 4.4 does not.
> > 
> > If a lawyer has issues with this, please just upgrade to the latest
> > kernel release :)
> 
> We are talking this project:
> https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start .
> Upgrading is not an option, but I can take the patch locally.

It does not meet the stable rules, sorry, I'm not going to take it.

> If someone has confirmation that "interesting" license is a mistake
> and it is indeed GPL, that would be nice, too.

Feel free to discus it with the company who wrote the driver :)

good luck!

greg k-h