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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>,
	stable <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xilinx_hwicap: remove improper wording in license statement
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:08:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217230855.29a26318@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229542103-24678-2-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:28:21 -0800
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> GPLv2 doesn't allow additional restrictions to be imposed on any
> code, so this wording needs to be removed from these files.

You only need to remove the "Use in .. expressly prohibited bit", the
rest seems like useful relevant information.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 19:27 [GIT PATCH] driver core fixes for your 2.6-git tree Greg KH
2008-12-17 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: fix using 'ret' variable in unregister_dynamic_debug_module Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-12-17 19:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] xilinx_hwicap: remove improper wording in license statement Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-12-17 23:08   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-12-17 23:45     ` Greg KH
2008-12-17 19:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] driver core: add newlines to debugging enabled/disabled messages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-12-17 19:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] STAGING: Move staging drivers back to staging-specific menu Greg Kroah-Hartman

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