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Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license

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On Saturday 26 November 2016 11:02 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> The driver was actually released with BSD license. It also gained GPL
>> when it was submitted to be included in the kernel.
>>
>> Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>
>> Cc: gzhou1 <guojian.zhou@windriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
>> index 2d22c51..e9632f1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
>> @@ -1243,4 +1243,4 @@ static void __exit lynxfb_exit(void)
>>   MODULE_AUTHOR("monk liu <monk.liu@siliconmotion.com>");
>>   MODULE_AUTHOR("Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>");
>>   MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Frame buffer driver for SM750 chipset");
>> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
>
> Should you also update the top of the files that don't say anything
> about licenses?
>
> I'll take this patch, but an update for them would also be good.

Sure, I will update the pages with the license text that Teddy sent me 
and will send you the patch by this weekend.

Regards
Sudip

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[PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-26 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: update license Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 23:30 +0100

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