Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] video: Add generic HDMI infoframe helpers

["Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:32:51PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 04.03.2013, 16:02 +0100 schrieb Thierry Reding:
> > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:49:46PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:03:26AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/video/hdmi.c b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> > > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > > index 0000000..ab23c9b
> > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/video/hdmi.c
> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
> > > > > +/*
> > > > > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Avionic Design GmbH
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > > > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > > > > + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > > > > + */
> > > > 
> > > > BTW was there any discussion about the license? drm is generally MIT.
> > > > Are people OK with depending on GPL code for infoframe support?
> > > 
> > > I wasn't aware of that. I don't know how much of an issue it is really
> > > since all symbols are exported non-GPL.
> > > 
> > > Thierry
> > 
> > It's not about the export of the symbols, but more about porting DRM to
> > other UNIXes like BSD. Using the GPL here makes life for the BSD guys a
> > lot harder and they are already struggling really hard to keep up with
> > the pace of Linux. So if you don't care too much it would be nice to use
> > MIT here.
> 
> Sure, I'll relicense it under MIT then.

It seems these got merged as GPL. Do you want to provide a patch for
changing the license?

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC