Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752031AbbHRBnx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:43:53 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f177.google.com ([209.85.160.177]:34256 "EHLO mail-yk0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbbHRBnv (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:43:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55D1FCDF.6060709@sonymobile.com> References: <0c41e21239f69c4e1aa89aba020c91edfc17c4e8.1439519413.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org> <20150814152723.GA17892@kroah.com> <55D1FCDF.6060709@sonymobile.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:43:50 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Device-mainlining] [PATCH v2 2/3] gadget: Introduce the usb charger framework From: Baolin Wang To: Tim Bird Cc: Greg KH , "patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" , "sameo@linux.intel.com" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , David Woodhouse , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , "r.baldyga@samsung.com" , "sojka@merica.cz" , Felipe Balbi , LKML , Alan Stern , Peter Chen , "sre@kernel.org" , Lee Jones , "device-mainlining@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1772 Lines: 48 On 17 August 2015 at 23:25, Tim Bird wrote: > > > On 08/16/2015 08:03 PM, Baolin Wang via device-mainlining wrote: >> On 14 August 2015 at 23:27, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:47:45PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: >>>> + * >>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>>> + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >>>> + * (at your option) any later version. >>> >>> I have to ask, do you really mean "any later version"? >>> >> >> I think I did not get your point, could you explain it detailedly? > > The full kernel is licensed under v2 of the GPL only, not "any later version". > See the second paragraph at the top of the COPYING file in the root directory > of the kernel source tree. There are differences on individual files, but > having this file allow "any later version" makes it different from much of > rest of the kernel. > > Unless you have a specific reason to allow greater-than-V2 GPL licensing on this > file, you should change the licensing clause. The following wording appears > to be pretty popular: > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > * published by the Free Software Foundation. > Hi Tim, Make sense of it. Thanks for your explanation. > -- Tim -- Baolin.wang Best Regards -- 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/