GPLv3 file in barebox

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Feb 9 01:53:34 PST 2017


Hi Daniel,

We have found that commands/mmc_extcsd.c is licensed under GPLv3 which
is incompatible to the barebox GPLv2 license. Are you ok with
relicensing this file? Otherwise we would have to remove it from
barebox.
If you're ok with relicensing the file please just ack the following
patch.

Sascha

---------------------------------8<----------------------------

>From f75fdb6741fa7f20a810798007ec1ebc12886370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:51:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] commands/mmc_extcsd: Relicense under GPLv2+

GPLv3 is incompatible with the projects license. Relicense file
under GPLv2+

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 commands/mmc_extcsd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
index d7fc50697c..42adfe0860 100644
--- a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
+++ b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  * 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 3 of the License, or
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
  * (at your option) any later version.
  *
  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- 
2.11.0


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