Clarify licensing of driver module

xmm7360 / xmm7360-pci

PCI driver for Fibocom L850-GL modem based on Intel XMM7360 modem

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Clarify licensing of driver module #124

Open jan-kiszka opened 3 years ago

jan-kiszka commented 3 years ago

The copyright header is ICS (https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC), MODULE_LICENSE() claims "Dual BSD/GPL", and an SPDX-License-Identifer is missing (checkpatch.pl barks) - what is the actually intended license now? I can't fix that via a PR, that needs to come from the main copyright holder and may require confirmation by all others with significant contributions.

tgxn commented 3 years ago

To clarify the issue:

License for PCI driver is here which looks to be ISC

Though here we see the Dual BSD/GPL

I would assume that the ISC license is correct, but we'd need @abrasive to advise which the driver should have.

tgxn commented 3 years ago

From sleuthing in #128 I found that it seems that "Development of this driver was supported by genua GmbH" was added in Jan 2020.

Also... Clarification to ISC was added around the same time https://github.com/xmm7360/xmm7360-pci/commit/8fb4c880cdbf36bd853fae75d26cba6b5738e993

Pandapip1 commented 6 months ago

Any updates here?

abrasive commented 6 months ago

Sorry folks, missed this in amongst the flurry of issues. I double checked the original communications with Genua, we had agreed dual GPL/BSD and then ended up with the wrong license text. This should be fixed in a8ff2c6, can you please confirm?

Pandapip1 commented 6 months ago

LGTM