Re: [RFC PATCH] power: axp288_charger: axp288 charger driver

[Paul Bolle]

Just a nit: a license mismatch.

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 22:36 +0530, Ramakrishna Pallala wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/power/Kconfig b/drivers/power/Kconfig
> index 4091fb0..c7d7e8b 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/power/Kconfig
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/power/axp288_charger.c

> + * 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; version 2 of the License.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> + * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the GNU
> + * General Public License for more details.

This states the license is GPL v2.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And, according to include/linux/module.h, this states the license is GPL
v2 or later. So I think either the license comment or the ident used in
the MODULE_LICENSE() macro should be changed.


Paul Bolle

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