checkpatch: add a licensing hint

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index baca2371c5..f9ad95dda0 100755
--- a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ complain ('Trailing whitespace') if $line =~ /[ \t]$/;
 complain ('Don\'t use glib typedefs for char/short/int/long/float/double') if $line =~ /\bg(char|short|int|long|float|double)\b/;
 complain ("Don't use \"$1 $2\" instead of \"$2 $1\"") if $line =~ /\b(char|short|int|long) +(unsigned|signed)\b/;
 complain ("Don't use \"unsigned int\" but just use \"unsigned\"") if $line =~ /\b(unsigned) +(int)\b/;
+complain ("Please use LGPL2+ for new files") if $is_patch and $line =~ /under the terms of the GNU General Public License/;
 
 # Further on we process stuff without comments.
 $_ = $line;