linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] dt-bindings: firmware: add google,gs101-acpm-ipc

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Message-ID: <66f7dde5-58e9-4ae8-9431-d94a43e96b0f@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:06:03 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@...ow.org>,
 André Draszik <andre.draszik@...aro.org>,
 Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley
 <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
 Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
 devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 kernel-team@...roid.com, willmcvicker@...gle.com, peter.griffin@...aro.org,
 daniel.lezcano@...aro.org, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
 ulf.hansson@...aro.org, arnd@...db.de,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] dt-bindings: firmware: add google,gs101-acpm-ipc

On 11/02/2025 14:29, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Tue Feb 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM CET, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 11/02/2025 13:02, André Draszik wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2025-02-11 at 11:57 +0000, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>>>> And then I shall s/MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");/MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");/
>>>> everywhere as "GPL" indicates [GNU Public License v2 or later].
>>>
>>> No, please don't, see Documentation/process/license-rules.rst.
>> For the rest of suggestions here I also recommend rereading docs. I
>> don't get why we need to change "GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause", but maybe I
>> miss some docs. Whatever SPDX recommends is irrelevant if kernel
>> recommends for example something else, so be sure you make it aligned
>> with actual kernel preference.
> 
> Unfortunately, ``Documentation/process/license-rules.rst`` and
> ``LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0`` are not in 'sync', but I guess that's
> (potentially) a discussion for another ML.
> 
> TL;DR: ``license-rules.rst`` says "GPL-2.0" while the license file
> allows both.


What exactly is there not in sync? To me it shows the preferred GPL-2.0,
over GPL-2.0-only.

LICENSES has licenses and all SPDX tags. license-rules for
simplification uses only some and the ones there could be understood as
preferred. Probably this should be changed first.


Best regards,
Krzysztof