Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rtc: wilco-ec: Fix license to GPL from GPLv2

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 03:55:55 EST


On Sun 2019-09-22 22:43:53, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 22/09/2019 22:29:48+0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2019-09-16 12:12:17, Nick Crews wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> > > index e84faa268caf..951268f5e690 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-wilco-ec.c
> > > @@ -184,5 +184,5 @@ module_platform_driver(wilco_ec_rtc_driver);
> > >
> > > MODULE_ALIAS("platform:rtc-wilco-ec");
> > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> > > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> > > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Wilco EC RTC driver");
> >
> > File spdx header says GPL-2.0, this change would make it inconsistent with that...
>
> Commit bf7fbeeae6db ("module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2"
> bogosity") doesn't agree with you (but I was surprised too).

Still don't get it. bf7fbeeae6db makes MODULE_LICENSE less useful, and
declares "GPL" == "GPL v2" in MODULE_LICENSE. So.. this change is no
longer wrong, it is just unneccessary...? Why do it? It is not a fix
as a subject line says...

Pavel
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