On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 06:27:23PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:50:42PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 06:03:24PM +0200, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 08:33:18AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/bus_type.c b/drivers/soundwire/bus_type.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a14d1de80afa --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/soundwire/bus_type.c @@ -0,0 +1,229 @@ +/*
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Are you _sure_ that code that interacts with the driver core can have a dual-license here? Have you explained to lawyers what you are doing here (wrapping gpl-only symbols with non-gpl-only exports)?
And why dual license something that will only ever work on Linux?
And finally, put a real SPDX header up there so that people don't have to parse that horrid amount of text to try to determine exactly what that license is.
Vinod:
It is hard to parse for people ... but it is quite hard for tools to catch this too. This license notice is so peculiar and special that I had to make a special detection rule just for it [1] in my tool :| Please have mercy: could you not pick something simpler?
Sorry for the trouble it caused. The code is Dual license as indicated by first two lines. I didn't invent the text here, legal folks did and used the standard template available in my company
I quick grep on Dual license users looks like we already have this in kernel code. See drivers/ntb/hw/intel/ntb_hw_intel.c
Just because someone did something wrong in the past, doesn't mean they should keep doing more wrong things in the future :)
Sure, I agree w/ you that. But this is still a standard header to use for me. I will check with folks to see if we can use as you suggested.