Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm: uapi: Use SPDX in DRM drivers uAPI headers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 02:52:25PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> [AMD Public Use]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:15 PM
> > To: Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig@amd.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>; Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>; dri-
> > devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>; Greg Kroah-
> > Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; Thomas Gleixner
> > <tglx@linutronix.de>; Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>;
> > Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>; Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>; Ben
> > Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>;
> > Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>; Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>;
> > VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>; Thomas
> > Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm: uapi: Use SPDX in DRM drivers uAPI headers
> > 
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 04:05:42PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > Am 17.07.20 um 04:27 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:29:33AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:58:44AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > >>> Am 21.06.20 um 04:07 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > > >>>> Most of the DRM drivers uAPI headers are licensed under the MIT
> > > >>>> license, and carry copies of the license with slight variations.
> > > >>>> Replace them with SPDX headers.
> > > >>> My personal opinion is that this is a really good idea, but my
> > > >>> professional is that we need the acknowledgment from our legal
> > department for this.
> > > >> I think official ack from amd on first patch, especially the .rst
> > > >> snippet, would be really good indeed.
> > > > Any update on this one ?
> > >
> > > Sorry totally forgot to forward this because I was waiting for split
> > > up patches.
> > >
> > > Going to do so right now.
> > 
> > Has there been any update ? :-)
> 
> AMD legal requires the full license.

Um, what?  Please let me talk to them about this, it's not ok for one
individual company, out of 450+, to somehow decide to do something
different.

Please put your lawyers in contact with me and I will have them discuss
it with the proper lawyers on our side.

thanks,

greg k-h
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