[PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Nov 26 11:02:45 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The driver was actually released with BSD license. It also gained GPL
> when it was submitted to be included in the kernel.
> 
> Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang at siliconmotion.com>
> Cc: gzhou1 <guojian.zhou at windriver.com> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee at codethink.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> index 2d22c51..e9632f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
> @@ -1243,4 +1243,4 @@ static void __exit lynxfb_exit(void)
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("monk liu <monk.liu at siliconmotion.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Sudip Mukherjee <sudip at vectorindia.org>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Frame buffer driver for SM750 chipset");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

Should you also update the top of the files that don't say anything
about licenses?

I'll take this patch, but an update for them would also be good.

thanks,

greg k-h


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