Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] hwmon (occ): Add sysfs attributes for additional OCC data

From: Joel Stanley
Date: Thu Jan 17 2019 - 20:47:24 EST


On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 11:44, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Eddie,
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Eddie James wrote:
>
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/occ/sysfs.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +/*
> > + * OCC hwmon driver sysfs interface
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation 2018
> > + *
> > + * 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 above license information is inconsistent.
>
> The SPDX license identifier says GPL v2 only, but the license notice says
> GPL v2 or later. This is just wrong.
>
> Please decide which one to use and please also remove the boiler plate
> text. It is redundant.
>
> See Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

Thanks Thomas.

Eddie, as IBM contributed code our preferred license is GPLv2+. Be
sure to include the copyright line in your header (I noticed some OCC
files are missing this, please audit all of your recent
contributions):

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
// Copyright IBM Corp 2019

Cheers,

Joel