From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@microsemi.com>,
razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com, po.liu@nxp.com,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: mscc: Add SPDX identifier
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:20:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180518082058.GG6828@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77d0d8ff4cb9984ac20546842292aafd9e3b2e25.camel@perches.com>
On 18/05/2018 01:14:25-0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Mostly, it's a question of what the original
> license is. As far as I can tell, microsemi
> publishes their code only under an MIT license.
>
This code didn't exist until I wrote it. The original license is the one
from the SPDX identifier.
> The MIT license does allow sublicensing, so
> it does seem you can choose what additional
> license restrictions you can assert as long
> as the original MIT license is also followed.
>
Then all is good.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-18 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 19:23 [PATCH net-next ] net: mscc: Add SPDX identifier Alexandre Belloni
2018-05-17 19:28 ` Joe Perches
2018-05-17 19:39 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-05-18 1:13 ` Joe Perches
2018-05-18 7:52 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-05-18 8:14 ` Joe Perches
2018-05-18 8:20 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2018-05-18 8:38 ` Allan W. Nielsen
2018-05-18 15:30 ` David Miller
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