From: Leilk Liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>,
fparent@baylibre.com, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
"luhua . xu" <luhua.xu@mediatek.com>,
Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Re-license MTK SPI driver as Dual MIT/GPL
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:02:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1614762159.5898.9.camel@mhfsdcap03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YD84OKr4vNwA7vnz@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 08:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:56:36AM +0800, Leilk Liu wrote:
> > From: "leilk.liu" <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
> >
> > It is wanted to use MTK spi bus driver with GPL-2.0 or MIT license.
> > But now it is only licensed as GPL-2.0, so re-license it as dual
> > MIT/GPL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: leilk.liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
>
> Please use your name here, not an email alias for where your name goes.
>
OK, I'll fix it, thanks!
>
> > ---
> > drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c | 4 ++--
> > include/linux/platform_data/spi-mt65xx.h | 2 +-
>
> Given that these files have been licensed under the GPL only since 2015,
> all changes contributed to it have only been licensed under the GPL as
> well, so have you gotten approval for all of the contributors for this
> change?
>
This is the reason that I sent this patch to ask for ACKs from all
contributors (who are all in the To mail-list) for these files.
> Can you please get your lawyer to also sign off on this license change
> patch, so that we know that you have their approval for this incase
> there are questions about it in the future?
>
I need to use the code in other projects that is not with GPL-2.0.
Also, the license change is approved by Mediatek supervisor.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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From: Leilk Liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
"luhua . xu" <luhua.xu@mediatek.com>,
Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>,
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
"Daniel Kurtz" <djkurtz@chromium.org>,
Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>,
<fparent@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Re-license MTK SPI driver as Dual MIT/GPL
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:02:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1614762159.5898.9.camel@mhfsdcap03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YD84OKr4vNwA7vnz@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 08:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:56:36AM +0800, Leilk Liu wrote:
> > From: "leilk.liu" <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
> >
> > It is wanted to use MTK spi bus driver with GPL-2.0 or MIT license.
> > But now it is only licensed as GPL-2.0, so re-license it as dual
> > MIT/GPL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: leilk.liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
>
> Please use your name here, not an email alias for where your name goes.
>
OK, I'll fix it, thanks!
>
> > ---
> > drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c | 4 ++--
> > include/linux/platform_data/spi-mt65xx.h | 2 +-
>
> Given that these files have been licensed under the GPL only since 2015,
> all changes contributed to it have only been licensed under the GPL as
> well, so have you gotten approval for all of the contributors for this
> change?
>
This is the reason that I sent this patch to ask for ACKs from all
contributors (who are all in the To mail-list) for these files.
> Can you please get your lawyer to also sign off on this license change
> patch, so that we know that you have their approval for this incase
> there are questions about it in the future?
>
I need to use the code in other projects that is not with GPL-2.0.
Also, the license change is approved by Mediatek supervisor.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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From: Leilk Liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
"luhua . xu" <luhua.xu@mediatek.com>,
Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>,
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
"Daniel Kurtz" <djkurtz@chromium.org>,
Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>,
<fparent@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Re-license MTK SPI driver as Dual MIT/GPL
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:02:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1614762159.5898.9.camel@mhfsdcap03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YD84OKr4vNwA7vnz@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 08:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:56:36AM +0800, Leilk Liu wrote:
> > From: "leilk.liu" <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
> >
> > It is wanted to use MTK spi bus driver with GPL-2.0 or MIT license.
> > But now it is only licensed as GPL-2.0, so re-license it as dual
> > MIT/GPL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: leilk.liu <leilk.liu@mediatek.com>
>
> Please use your name here, not an email alias for where your name goes.
>
OK, I'll fix it, thanks!
>
> > ---
> > drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c | 4 ++--
> > include/linux/platform_data/spi-mt65xx.h | 2 +-
>
> Given that these files have been licensed under the GPL only since 2015,
> all changes contributed to it have only been licensed under the GPL as
> well, so have you gotten approval for all of the contributors for this
> change?
>
This is the reason that I sent this patch to ask for ACKs from all
contributors (who are all in the To mail-list) for these files.
> Can you please get your lawyer to also sign off on this license change
> patch, so that we know that you have their approval for this incase
> there are questions about it in the future?
>
I need to use the code in other projects that is not with GPL-2.0.
Also, the license change is approved by Mediatek supervisor.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-03 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 2:56 [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Re-license MTK SPI driver as Dual MIT/GPL Leilk Liu
2021-03-03 2:56 ` Leilk Liu
2021-03-03 3:05 ` Axel Lin
2021-03-03 3:05 ` Axel Lin
2021-03-03 3:05 ` Axel Lin
2021-03-03 7:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-03 7:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-03 7:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-03 9:02 ` Leilk Liu [this message]
2021-03-03 9:02 ` Leilk Liu
2021-03-03 9:02 ` Leilk Liu
2021-03-03 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-03 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-03 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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