Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] staging: ccree: introduce CryptoCell HW driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 20 2017 - 10:01:25 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:40:56PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:12:55PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/bsp.h
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> >> +/*
> >> + * Copyright (C) 2012-2016 ARM Limited or its affiliates.
> >> + *
> >> + * 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.
> >
> > Oh, I have to ask, do you really mean "any later version" here and
> > elsewhere?
> >
> > If so, then your MODULE_LICENSE() marking is wrong, please fix that up,
> > or fix up the license text, I can't take incompatible ones without
> > getting angry emails from legal people sent to me...
> >
>
> Thanks for noticing this.
>
> The copyright + license notice is a boilerplate I got from the powers
> that be here.
>
> I'll consult internally what is the proper action. I don't want to
> make legal mad either... :-)

Ok, I'll drop this patch series then, and wait for an updated one with
this fixed up.

thanks,

greg k-h