[RFC/PATCH v2] ubi: Add ubiblock read-write driver

[richard -rw- weinberger]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Gregory CLEMENT <gclement00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/12/12 richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger at gmail.com>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> A few comments...
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubiblock.c
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,830 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright (c) 2012 Ezequiel Garcia
>>> + * Copyright (c) 2011 Free Electrons
>>> + *
>>> + * 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.
>>
>> Linux is GPLv2 and not v2 or any later version...
>
> I think it is more complicate than this.
> In the kernel you have code under GPLv2, GPLv2+ and even BSD licenses.
> All these licenses are compatible but if you want to distribute all the sources
> of the kernel then you are under the more restrictive license: GPLv2.
> So we can say that kernel is GPLv2, but it doesn't prevent to submit code
> under GPLv2+.

The kernel is GPLv2. period.

> There seems to have a couple of files under GPLv2:
> git grep "(at your option) any later version" | wc -l
> 6800

These lines are wrong.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard