Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946308AbbDXQxu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:53:50 -0400 Received: from lb3-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.30]:60099 "EHLO lb3-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946291AbbDXQxp (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:53:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1429894419.2927.61.camel@x220> Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH V2 1/2] input: misc: da9063: OnKey driver From: Paul Bolle To: Steve Twiss Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Lee Jones , Samuel Ortiz , DT , David Dajun Chen , INPUT , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , LKML , Mark Rutland , Pawel Moll , Rob Herring , Support Opensource Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:53:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6ED8E3B22081A4459DAC7699F3695FB7014B217581@SW-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> References: <1429343726.16771.129.camel@x220> <6ED8E3B22081A4459DAC7699F3695FB7014B217581@SW-EX-MBX02.diasemi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-4.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1071 Lines: 30 On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 13:45 +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote: > That seems to be a fairly common mistake in the kernel. It's an easy mistake to make. And as long as people pick an ident that passes license_is_gpl_compatible() the module will build and load just fine. > When I did a > straw-poll, around 10% of files came up with "GPL v2" and contained > "any later version" text. That seems plausible. I'm inclined to think the difference between "GPL" and "GPL v2" is mainly an accident of history (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/11/188 for some background). But apparently were stuck with these two idents. Anyhow, in the last two months I've not come up with a better plan than regularly check patches for mismatches like the one you made. If you have a better idea, I'll be all ears. Thanks, Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/