[v8, 2/3] drm/rockchip: Add support for Rockchip Soc RGB output interface
sandy.huang
hjc at rock-chips.com
Thu Jan 24 11:41:25 UTC 2019
Hi heiko and thomas,
the SPDX license identifier is updated by the following patch, please
help to review, thanks.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10776935/
在 2019/1/18 下午8:34, Heiko Stuebner 写道:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2019, 01:40:03 CET schrieb Thomas Gleixner:
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
>>> +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
>>> + * Author:
>>> + * Sandy Huang <hjc at rock-chips.com>
>>> + *
>>> + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
>>> + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
>>> + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> The licensing in this file and in the corresponding header is broken.
>>
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
>>> +//SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright (C) Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd
>>> + * Author:
>>> + * Sandy Huang <hjc at rock-chips.com>
>>> + *
>>> + * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
>>> + * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
>>> + * may be copied, distributed, and modified under those terms.
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>>> + */
>> Both files use the SPDX license identifier for GPL v2 or later, but the
>> license notice is clearly v2 only.
>>
>> So the copyright holder needs to decide which one. And please remove the
>> boiler plate text. It's redundant.
> Not sure how to proceed as I haven't seen Sandy around for quite a bit,
> but the first versions didn't have a SPDX header and were GPL2-only (v1-v4)
> and the SPDX header was added in v5.
>
> So as a stopgap measure, I'd guess we could assume that the copyright
> intended GPL2-only?
>
>
>> Please fix ASAP, add a Fixes tag and cc stable so the inconsistency is
>> fixed in 4.20 as well.
> ok, once we have the direction of change set.
>
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> Heiko
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