Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] Input: cros_ec_keyb - Switch to SPDX identifier.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:23:38AM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Hi Grek,
> 
> On 25/06/18 03:57, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> >> Hi Fabio,
> >>
> >> On 05/06/18 20:04, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >>> Hi Enric,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Enric Balletbo i Serra
> >>> <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Adopt the SPDX license identifier headers to ease license compliance
> >>>> management.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v2:
> >>>> - [6/9] Do not remove last paragraph.
> >>>>
> >>>>  drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c | 34 ++++++++++-----------------
> >>>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> >>>> index 79eb29550c34..91b2839c12df 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c
> >>>> @@ -1,25 +1,15 @@
> >>>> -/*
> >>>> - * ChromeOS EC keyboard driver
> >>>> - *
> >>>> - * Copyright (C) 2012 Google, Inc
> >>>> - *
> >>>> - * This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> >>>> - * License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation, and
> >>>
> >>> Original text says GPL-2.0...
> >>>
> >>>> - * 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.
> >>>> - *
> >>>> - * This driver uses the Chrome OS EC byte-level message-based protocol for
> >>>> - * communicating the keyboard state (which keys are pressed) from a keyboard EC
> >>>> - * to the AP over some bus (such as i2c, lpc, spi).  The EC does debouncing,
> >>>> - * but everything else (including deghosting) is done here.  The main
> >>>> - * motivation for this is to keep the EC firmware as simple as possible, since
> >>>> - * it cannot be easily upgraded and EC flash/IRAM space is relatively
> >>>> - * expensive.
> >>>> - */
> >>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> >>>
> >>> but here you add a GPL-2.0+ type.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Right, but the module license is set to GPL which means GNU Public License v2 or
> >> later, see [1]. So, there is a mismatch. In such cases I assumed GPL-2.0+ as the
> >> default. These mismatches are common so I think that should be fine for the
> >> authors, if someone is disagree just let me know and I will change.
> > 
> > NO!
> > 
> > The license text is what you need to follow as almost everyone gets the
> > MODULE_LICENSE() stuff wrong.  You can not follow the MODULE_LICENSE
> > marking for determining GPLv2 vs. GPLv2+ at this point in time.  After
> > we get the SPDX stuff all cleaned up then we can go and fix up the
> > MODULE_LICENSE mismatch.
> > 
> > So again, always defer to the license text in the file, NOT the
> > MODULE_LICENSE() marking.
> > 
> 
> Many thanks for your feedback, Dmitry already told me that I was doing wrong
> this and I sent another version following the license text, so this patchset was
> superseded for v3 [1].
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/925906/

Ah, good, sorry for the noise then, I didn't see that series.

greg k-h