Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: android: ion: Add the GPL exception for syscalls

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 04:42:12 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:01:46PM -0800, Hyun Kwon wrote:
> Add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to the license to not put GPL
> restrictions on user space programs using this header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> index 5d70098..46c93fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> /*
> * drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> *
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Yes, that is the correct thing to do, let me go queue this up.

thanks,

greg k-h