linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: raw-gadget: upgrade license identifier

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Message-ID: <CA+fCnZeC8PbDg_E3WWtqGBAwUs65Y7=b5DG=whN-CaOEs5uS7g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:19:04 +0100
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: raw-gadget: upgrade license identifier

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:32:36PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev wrote:
> > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
> >
> > Most of the USB gadget modules are licensed as GPL-2.0+. There is no
> > reason not to allow using Raw Gadget code under a newer GPL version.
> >
> > Change SPDX identifier from GPL-2.0 to GPL-2.0+.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I don't know whether such license change is possible and what it
> > requires.
>
> It requires the copyright holder to agree to change the license, as well
> as anyone who as contributed to it.  If you so desire to do this, please
> work with them and get the lawyers for those entities to sign off on the
> patch and I will be glad to take it.

Ah, never mind this patch then. I don't care enough to bother with
this. I'm not even sure what the difference is, but having less
restrictions seems better.

I wonder if checkpatch could alert about considering GPL-2.0+ when
adding new files.

Thanks!