netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support

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Message-ID: <20201105202214.GA1339091@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 21:22:14 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Fred Oh <fred.oh@...ux.intel.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>,
        "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>,
        "Patil, Kiran" <kiran.patil@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 09:12:51AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > Per above SPDX is v2 only, so...
> >
> > Isn't it default for the Linux kernel?
> 
> SPDX eliminated the need to guess a default, and MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
> implies the "or later" language. The only default assumption is that
> the license is GPL v2 compatible, those possibilities are myriad, but
> v2-only is the first preference.

No, MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") does not imply "or later" at all.  Please see
include/linux/module.h, it means "GPL version 2".

thanks,

greg k-h