Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:05:10 -0700 | From | Alex Williamson <> | Subject | Re: [patch 9/9] vfio/pci: Cleanup license mess |
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:14:25 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> The recently added nvlink2 VFIO driver introduced a license conflict in two > files. In both cases the SPDX license identifier is: > > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > > but the files contain also the following license boiler plate text: > > * 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 > > The latter is GPL-2.9-only and not GPL-2.0=. > > Looking deeper. The nvlink source file is derived from vfio_pci_igd.c which > is also licensed under GPL-2.0-only and it can be assumed that the file was > copied and modified. As the original file is licensed GPL-2.0-only it's not > possible to relicense derivative work to GPL-2.0-or-later. > > Fix the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate as it is redundant. > > Fixes: 7f92891778df ("vfio_pci: Add NVIDIA GV100GL [Tesla V100 SXM2] subdriver") > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> > Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > --- > > P.S.: This patch is part of a larger cleanup, but independent of other > patches and is intended to be picked up by the maintainer directly.
Applied to vfio for-linus branch for v5.0. Thanks,
Alex
> --- > drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h | 6 +----- > drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c | 6 +----- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/trace.h > @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ > -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */ > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */ > /* > * VFIO PCI mmap/mmap_fault tracepoints > * > * Copyright (C) 2018 IBM Corp. All rights reserved. > * Author: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> > - * > - * 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. > */ > > #undef TRACE_SYSTEM > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_nvlink2.c > @@ -1,14 +1,10 @@ > -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > /* > * VFIO PCI NVIDIA Whitherspoon GPU support a.k.a. NVLink2. > * > * Copyright (C) 2018 IBM Corp. All rights reserved. > * Author: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> > * > - * 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. > - * > * Register an on-GPU RAM region for cacheable access. > * > * Derived from original vfio_pci_igd.c: > >
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