linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl/region: Add module license declaration to cxl region module source code

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Message-ID: <664ccd41d9721_e8be2942d@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 09:35:13 -0700
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, <nifan.cxl@...il.com>,
	<dave.jiang@...el.com>, <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
	<vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	<Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
CC: <linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <a.manzanares@...sung.com>,
	<dave@...olabs.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <nifan.cxl@...il.com>,
	Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl/region: Add module license declaration to cxl region
 module source code

Ira Weiny wrote:
> nifan.cxl@ wrote:
> > From: Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>
> > 
> > This change explicitly specifies the licensing terms for the CXL region
> > module as GPL v2. This commit does not introduce any functional changes
> > to the behavior or functionality of the CXL region module.
> > It solely adds the MODULE_LICENSE declaration to the module source file.
> 
> Why is this needed?  The region code is added to cxl_core when built and
> that module already reports the correct module license.

Right, and region.c has:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only