linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dt-bindings: usb: use preferred license tag

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Date:   Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:50:52 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dt-bindings: usb: use preferred license tag

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:43:14PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> This is used to fix the checkpach.pl WARNING:SPDX_LICENSE_TAG
> 
> See bindings/submitting-patches.rst:
> "DT binding files should be dual licensed. The preferred license tag is
>  (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com>
> ---
> v2: new patch
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-hcd.yaml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-hcd.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-hcd.yaml
> index 42b295afdf32..11b9b9ee2b54 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-hcd.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/usb-hcd.yaml
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)

Are you sure you are allowed to change the license of this file?  Last I
checked, you did not write this file, and so, you can't change the
license of it.  You need to get the owners of the file to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h