Re: [PATCH] Add virtio gpu driver.

[Paul Bolle]

Just a license nit.

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:07 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
> +/*
> + * 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * All Rights Reserved.
> + *
> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> + * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> + * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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> + * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> + *
> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
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> + * Software.
> + *
> + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> + * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
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I wouldn't know (without further, well, research) which license this is.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

But I'm pretty sure it's not GPL v2 or later. So I think the license
mentioned in the comment at the top of this file and the license "ident"
used in this macro do not match.


Paul Bolle

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