Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 1/1] TPM: STMicroelectronics ST33 I2C KERNEL 3.x.x

[Peter Hüwe]

Hi Kent,

Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2012, 22:00:48 schrieb Kent Yoder:
>   This is already at least v3 of the driver IIRC. And its not fully
> committed at all, its just in a staging tree. I can blow it away at any
> time if we find problems.
> 
>   Not a problem. usually I'd attach any updates I planned to commit for
> public review, then if anything wasn't made public before I issue my
> pull request to send them to security-next, I'd append the full diff to
> the pull request at that time. Either way, all changes will hit a list
> at some point in time.
Ok - great ;) maybe my I got the 'planning on pushing'  wrong.


> > I thought the Mathias has changed the naming of the files? I don't see
> > that in your commit.
> 
>   Good catch, this is the kind of review I was asking for. :-)

Hehe. Glad to hear.
You know I care for the tpm subsystem ;)

> 
> > The version you committed to that branch still has some of the items of
> > my first review. (e.g.
> > 
> >  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > 
> > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> > * (at your option) any later version.)
> > 
> > -> The (possible) GPL v3 clause has to go away for the kernel, but I'm
> > not a lawyer.
> 
>   A GPLv3 clause would say "v3 or any later version". This should be
> fine.

Hmm, okay. 
I just googled for it on lkml, there are some files and drivers.
So I guess it's okay - sorry for the noise.
But I'm not a lawyer, personally I'd go for GPLv2 only but that's my personal 
opinion. 


Thanks,
Peter


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