Re: [PATCH 5/9] rtc: cros-ec: Switch to SPDX identifier.

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Jun 24 2018 - 22:02:47 EST


On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 08:59:52PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 20:51:06+0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> > Hi Alexandre,
> >
> > On 05/06/18 11:46, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > On 05/06/2018 11:22:05+0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> > >> Adopt the SPDX license identifier headers to ease license compliance
> > >> management.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> drivers/rtc/rtc-cros-ec.c | 21 +++++----------------
> > >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > > Applied, thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like all the ChromeOS drivers should be licensed as GPL v2 only. There was
> > a mismatch between what the header says and the MODULE_LICENSE and I wrongly
> > assumed that the MODULE_LICENSE is the one I should follow. So could you not
> > apply this patch for now and I'll send another version with the correct license?
> >
>
> Hum, ok, this seemed to be the correct way to solve the mismatch to me.

No, the license text trumps the MODULE_LICENSE() string. Please revert
this, or fix it up to be correct.

thanks,

greg k-h