On 05-12-20, 17:31, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:52:50AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Regmap SoundWire MBQ Module"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Why do you want to change this ?
We only use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") for new contributions since 'GPL v2' does not bring any information on the license, is equivalent to 'GPL' and only exists for 'historical reasons', see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/license-rules.html
“GPL” Module is licensed under GPL version 2. This does not express any distinction between GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later. The exact license information can only be determined via the license information in the corresponding source files.
“GPL v2” Same as “GPL”. It exists for historic reasons.
We should have used 'GPL' in the initial regmap MBQ patch but didn't for some reason, this change just realigns with what we intended.
That said, this is unrelated to this no_pm patch so could be in a separate one if you preferred it that way.
It should be separate as it does not have anything to do with the real reason this patch was submitted.
Precisely, this should be a separate patch explaining the motivation behind this change.