Just as a point here, and only because I know far too much about OSS
licensing and have worked closely with the Linux Foundation.
If you intend to follow kernel mainline as decided by Linus, he has
already stated that ALL mainline code should be GPLv2 only. So I would
strongly suggest that you have "GPL v2" (leave out the 'or later',
that's enough).
Chris
(aka Chris Maresca - Founding Partner - www.olliancegroup.com)
Rick Scott wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 01:06 -0500, Chris Frey wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> I notice that your license text for your kernel module indicates
>> "GPL v2 only" while the code indicates "GPL v2 or later."
>>
>
> That seemed to be what the kernel sources I looked at had, so I wanted
> to go with that.
>
>
>> If you really do mean "GPL v2 only", you may wish to apply the following
>> patch. This is based on the comments in include/linux/module.h.
>>
>
> Good point, done...
>
>
>> - Chris
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/init.c b/kernel/init.c
>> index 4e33e3a..2b068e8 100644
>> --- a/kernel/init.c
>> +++ b/kernel/init.c
>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>> #define SUCCESS (0)
>> #endif
>>
>> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>> MODULE_AUTHOR(PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Device driver for the RIM Blackberry");
>> MODULE_VERSION(PACKAGE_VERSION);
>>
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