From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] drm/tegra: Restore licensing consistency Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:22:00 -0700 Message-ID: <52FBC9D8.3090505@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1392190238-1717-1-git-send-email-treding@nvidia.com> <52FBA581.3000707@wwwdotorg.org> <20140212191340.GB2424@ulmo.nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140212191340.GB2424-AwZRO8vwLAwmlAP/+Wk3EA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org On 02/12/2014 12:13 PM, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:46:57AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 02/12/2014 12:30 AM, Thierry Reding wrote: >>> The bulk of the Tegra DRM driver is GPL v2 licensed, but some of the new >>> subdrivers were licensed under an MIT license. This was simply oversight >>> on my part. >>> >>> One exception to this is the public header file that will eventually be >>> used within libdrm. Since all the other headers in libdrm use the MIT >>> license, do the same for Tegra. >> >> The series, >> Acked-by: Stephen Warren >> >> I guess this needs explicit acks from the following people outside >> NVIDIA who touched these files:? >> >> Wei Yongjun (dsi.c) >> Emil Goode (tegra_drm.h) > > Does it? Those changes were mostly mechanical in nature, so I'm not sure > if that qualifies them for having any bearing of the license of the > file. > > But if you insist I can resend with Wei and Emil on Cc. Well, it seems simpler if you get an ack; that way it documents the fact, and avoids any issues in the future, irrespective of whether those changes convey (c) owderhsip or not. I'd imagine you don't need a whole resend; just forward the email?