Re: [PATCH 10/17] tty: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-03-26 04:52:58
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-03-26 04:52:58
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Again, I strongly feel that removing MODULE_LICENSE() lines from files that just don't happen to be built as a module is not ok as no other MODULE_*() macro has this arbitrary restriction.
Yes. And it should probably have a use in the kernel by checking that nothing license-incompatible ever gets linked into mvlinux. At least until we can parse the SPDX tags directly and make use of that instead.