From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F30C49EA5 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ACC613F6 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231501AbhFXMmB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:42:01 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39720 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231367AbhFXMl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:41:59 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 33787613F9; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:39:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1624538379; bh=nKj38+Wzyi+tJFKbDI7NfmZggPELJNHWPYbGpEuAhfA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=uszB6u2QvBlPTNla/VdCFLDUsCctLOR2VNk9Zbfa871BFgTtJcBE8W7HLrUHnaE5f yG1ig9VgZvPoGghFPHqdWIfgOfKXi9lmX/ZYbUdqXOYuMU/687nIzTofGWv0fHi44/ PV2FT19RbRSq+8ea5F4Jm/t3XdfuiomVJ1/obmcw= Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:39:37 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Krzysztof =?utf-8?Q?Ha=C5=82asa?= , Kieran Bingham , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC v2] MEDIA: Driver for ON Semi AR0521 camera sensor Message-ID: References: <42958029-5625-5f4d-a075-2f59a74e0fb5@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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