[alsa-devel] [PATCH 02/14] soundwire: Add SoundWire bus type

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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 at 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 :)