From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEE6C4321E for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232908AbiKPLri (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:47:38 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:60712 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239162AbiKPLq4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:46:56 -0500 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59436F022 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01D2761D25 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E82AEC4314C; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:33:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1668598419; bh=QZNkSpuli8jsiuB+JH+me7dkfZ7DjjZyO9nWDuG8t9s=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=XIc7re3nfACKXOrLTP23xtcXVkrquGTnt/ABuAdOFCGdPmNWj1CNldjv1lsIFd4iF QOUuP3GFQ2/C6ozCJMlGtlf/E0WZxNIHM+S+aqhKUfPgVOfh5y8XBYLvvkIoToTEAu aXEfuz5r3JruxJrmEr+AR2Z1H1AxmvFghgMwfM/s= Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:33:36 +0100 From: Greg KH To: matt.hsiao@hpe.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, gustavoars@kernel.org, nishadkamdar@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dhaval.experiance@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com, standby24x7@gmail.com, wfp5p@virginia.edu, jslaby@suse.cz, prarit@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL Message-ID: References: <20221116094712.14312-1-matt.hsiao@hpe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20221116094712.14312-1-matt.hsiao@hpe.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:47:12PM +0800, matt.hsiao@hpe.com wrote: > From: Matt Hsiao > > Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE > servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed > for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao For dual-license stuff like this, I need to see a signed-off-by: from your corporate lawyer so that we know that they fully understand the issues involved here with dual licenses. You are free to take your original version from your company and submit it to the BSD codebase, but when taking it from Linux like this, there is a lot more process and issues involved and so we need HPE's lawyers to sign off. Without that, sorry, I can't take this change. greg k-h