linux-kernel - [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7625: drop BSD license tag

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Message-Id: <20250114-ad7625_license-v1-1-6555b7be05ab@baylibre.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:31:55 -0500
From: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>
To: Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>, 
 Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@...log.com>, 
 Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>
Subject: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7625: drop BSD license tag

The ad7625 driver was submitted under a dual BSD/GPL license, but this
isn't a requirement for the code, and adds extra complexity. To make it
consistent with similar drivers, drop the BSD tag and leave it as
GPL-2.0-only.

Suggested-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@...log.com>
Signed-off-by: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>
---
 drivers/iio/adc/ad7625.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7625.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7625.c
index aefe3bf75c91..8b020f22c5a8 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7625.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7625.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause)
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only)
 /*
  * Analog Devices Inc. AD7625 ADC driver
  *
@@ -680,5 +680,5 @@ module_platform_driver(ad7625_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Analog Devices AD7625 ADC");
-MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_IMPORT_NS("IIO_BACKEND");

---
base-commit: 5bc55a333a2f7316b58edc7573e8e893f7acb532
change-id: 20250114-ad7625_license-bcbaaa3bf449

Best regards,
-- 
Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>