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

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Message-ID: <20250118155510.7532d5c5@jic23-huawei>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:55:10 +0000
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com>
Cc: Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>, Nuno Sá
 <nuno.sa@...log.com>, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
 linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad7625: drop BSD license tag

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:31:55 -0500
Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@...libre.com> wrote:

> 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>

Your code, so your choice either way.  Applied.

> ---
>  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,