Hi Lee,
Missatge de Lee Jones <[email protected]> del dia dl., 18 de juny
2018 a les 9:21:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 06 Jun 2018, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> >
> > > The license text is specifying "GPLv2" but the MODULE_LICENSE is set to
> > > GPL which means GNU Public License v2 or later. When MODULE_LICENSE and
> > > boiler plate does not match, go for boiler plate license.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v3: None
> > > Changes in v2: None
> > >
> > >  drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c     | 2 +-
> > >  drivers/mfd/cros_ec_i2c.c | 2 +-
> > >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Applied, thanks.
>
> I've just seen Joe's comment.
>

Did you read my answer [1] to the Joe's email?

According to the doc if MODULE_LICENSE is GPL that means  GPL-2.0 or
later which to be strict is wrong if your file is GPL-2.0 only. It's
right that there are modules in the kernel that have this mismatch but
IMHO is wrong, there are also some examples where people fix this, i.e
[2]

Best regards,
  Enric

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/8/144
[2] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=75dc344145190bf53aed7a28dbc27c11180d94e5




> Unapplied, for now.
>
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