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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: "Krzysztof Hałasa" <khalasa@piap.pl>,
	"Kieran Bingham" <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] MEDIA: Driver for ON Semi AR0521 camera sensor
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:39:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNR9CS/PfG7s1e71@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNR2OkXL+wUaKuy4@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 03:10:34PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> CC'ing Greg to get his expert opinion on the topic.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:57:55AM +0200, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote:
> > Hi Kieran, and others,
> > 
> > Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com> writes:
> > 
> > >>> The work is not published under GPL.
> > >
> > > This seems like an odd thing to say when your patch explicitly contains:
> > >
> > >> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ar0521.c
> > >> @@ -0,0 +1,1060 @@
> > >> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > 
> > Such tags have meaning only in the kernel context, when signed-off etc.

Huh?  It is a statement of the license of the file itself, it is
independent of "Signed-off-by:" which is a legal agreement of a totally
different thing and is independent of license type entirely.

> > Alone, they aren't legal statements, especially when I explicitly state
> > that it's not signed-off-by me yet. Nevertheless...

Putting the above line on a file _IS_ a legal declaration that the file
is released under GPL-2.0.  It's pretty simple :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-22 11:18 [RFC v2] MEDIA: Driver for ON Semi AR0521 camera sensor Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-22 11:57 ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-23  4:21   ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-23  4:31     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-23  5:28       ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-23 13:17         ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-23 14:27           ` Kieran Bingham
2021-06-24  4:57             ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-24 12:10               ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-24 12:39                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-06-24 13:22                   ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-24 13:29                     ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 14:17                       ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-24 14:31                         ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 13:34                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2021-06-24 14:42                       ` Greg KH
2021-06-25  6:03                         ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-06-25  6:59                           ` Greg KH
2021-06-24 11:10   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-06-24 13:51     ` Krzysztof Hałasa

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