Re: [PATCH] usb: raw-gadget: upgrade license identifier

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:32:36PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Most of the USB gadget modules are licensed as GPL-2.0+. There is no
> > reason not to allow using Raw Gadget code under a newer GPL version.
> >
> > Change SPDX identifier from GPL-2.0 to GPL-2.0+.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I don't know whether such license change is possible and what it
> > requires.
>
> It requires the copyright holder to agree to change the license, as well
> as anyone who as contributed to it.  If you so desire to do this, please
> work with them and get the lawyers for those entities to sign off on the
> patch and I will be glad to take it.

Ah, never mind this patch then. I don't care enough to bother with
this. I'm not even sure what the difference is, but having less
restrictions seems better.

I wonder if checkpatch could alert about considering GPL-2.0+ when
adding new files.

Thanks!