ot;); would mean GPL-2.0+ (e.g. or any
later version) and this would not match your top level license tag.
I know this may seem confusing, but there is little hope we can change
the MODULE_LICENSE tags that are used by many external module loaders.
Comments in module.h explain it all.
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ame thing in the
MODULE_LICENSE and your SPDX tags.
[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
[2]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/module.h#n175
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Gilad,
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Philippe Ombredanne
> wrote:
>> Gilad,
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>>> Replace verbatim GPL v2 copy with SPDX tag.
>&g
the
whole purpose to have clear licensing kernel-wide: using the latest
and greatest introduces variations and creates a mess that we want to
avoid in the first place.
CC: Thomas Gleixner
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/28/323
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Thomas
doc patches. .e.g.
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
And then it might makes sense there too:
> +/* Copyright (C) 2012-2017 ARM Limited or its affiliates. */
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Łukasz,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Łukasz Stelmach
wrote:
> It was <2017-12-22 pią 19:30>, when Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Łukasz Stelmach
>> wrote:
>>> It was <2017-12-22 pią 14:34>, when Philippe Ombredanne wrote
cense header instead of the traditional blurb.
>
> - MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2") instead of "GPL"
>
> Thank you, Philippe Ombredanne.
You have my cheerful ack for these changes:
Acked-by: Philippe Ombredanne
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> It was <2017-12-22 pią 14:34>, when Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>> Łukasz,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Łukasz Stelmach
>> wrote:
>>> Add support for True Random Number Genera
g/lkml/2017/12/4/934
[2] https://blogs.s-osg.org/linux-kernel-license-practices-revisited-spdx/
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Dear CheahKC,
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Cheah Kok Cheong wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:20:48PM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Cheah Kok Cheong wrote:
>> > Remove FSF address otherwise checkpatch will flag my next patch.
&g
tails.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> with
> - * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> - * 51 Franklin St - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> */
>
> #include
> --
>
rd out in your team too, this would be much welcomed!
Thanks!
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/934
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On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>
>
> On 12/06/2017 03:10 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:>> diff --git
> a/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c
>>>
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index ..b5789f8785
this way:
> +// SDPX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) interface
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> + *
> + * Author: Brijesh Singh
> + */
It is much cleaner and simpler, right?
For the C++ comment style and first line placement, please see Thomas
(tlgx) doc patches and Linus posts explaining his rationale of why he
wants it this way.
It would be awesome if this could be applied to all AMD contributions btw!
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> Patch applied. Thanks.
Herbert,
You may have missed the thread on the similar "samples" patch [1]
before applying this as-is?
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/14/135
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