Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 19:04:05 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Device-mainlining] [PATCH v2 2/3] gadget: Introduce the usb charger framework |
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Hi!
> > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > > > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > > > * published by the Free Software Foundation. > > > > Please, keep it V2 or later, if you can. It makes sharing code with U-Boot (for > > example) easier. > > > > There's long tradition of "V2 or later" code in the kernel. > > And there's even longer "v2 only" tradition as well. It's up to the > person / company submitting the code to pick the license for it, let > them make the decision please.
You wrote:
>> + * >> + * 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. > >I have to ask, do you really mean "any later version"?
Given that you are quite high-level maintainer, that does not sound exactly like "let them make the decision". It sounds like a pressure to change the license to the one you liked. WHy did you have to ask?
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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