From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@denx.de>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Jacek Anaszewski" <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
"Dan Murphy" <dmurphy@ti.com>, "Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@suse.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
"Johan Hovold" <johan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] leds: trigger: implement a tty trigger
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200712090731.GB13495@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200712090217.GA177304@kroah.com>
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On Sun 2020-07-12 11:02:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:50:59AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Sun 2020-07-12 10:43:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:24:53AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-tty.c
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
> > > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > >
> > > > 2.0+ is preffered.
> > >
> > > No it is not, that's up to the developer.
> >
> > For code I maintain, yes it is.
>
> That's up to the developer of the code, not the maintainer, as the
> maintainer is not the copyright holder of it. For new files, it is up
> to the author of that code. No maintainer should impose a license rule
> like this on their subsystem, that's just not ok at all. The only
> "rule" is that it is compatible with GPLv2, nothing else.
No, see for example device tree rules.
Plus, IIRC it was you who asked the developer to "doublecheck with
their legal" when you seen GPL-2.0+. You can't really prevent me from
doing the same.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-12 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-07 16:59 [PATCH v7 0/3] leds: trigger: implement a tty trigger Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-07 16:59 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] tty: rename tty_kopen() and add new function tty_kopen_shared() Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-07 16:59 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] tty: new helper function tty_get_icount() Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-07 16:59 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] leds: trigger: implement a tty trigger Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-12 8:24 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-12 8:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-12 8:50 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-12 9:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-12 9:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-07-12 9:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-13 10:26 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-14 7:13 ` Johan Hovold
2020-07-21 19:48 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-22 8:34 ` Johan Hovold
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