Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Nov 26 2016 - 06:03:23 EST


On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The driver was actually released with BSD license. It also gained GPL
> when it was submitted to be included in the kernel.
>
> Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: gzhou1 <guojian.zhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> index 2d22c51..e9632f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> @@ -1243,4 +1243,4 @@ static void __exit lynxfb_exit(void)
> MODULE_AUTHOR("monk liu <monk.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Frame buffer driver for SM750 chipset");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

Should you also update the top of the files that don't say anything
about licenses?

I'll take this patch, but an update for them would also be good.

thanks,

greg k-h