Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: change i915_sw_fence license to MIT

From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: change i915_sw_fence license to MIT
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:53:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181123145346.GA65047@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154297806663.30220.832576114132154111@jlahtine-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:01:06PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-11-23 14:28:37)
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:14:00PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > > Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-11-20 00:31:22)
> > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 08:44:30PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:43:03AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > > Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-10-31 00:56:12)
> > > > > > > > Chris Wilson said Intel is willing to change the license of these files
> > > > > > > > to MIT.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
> > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > > > > > -Chris
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Still looking to get this merged/reviewed by one of the i915 maintainers.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I believe this patch should have a better commit message.
> > > > 
> > > > It isn't clear what should be changed, what do you have in mind?
> > > 
> > > It would make sense to state why you want to change the license to begin
> > > with.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, I'll double check with our legal team and reply shortly.
> > > 
> > > Regards, Joonas
> > 
> > I am porting the i915 code to OpenBSD again.  These files are the last
> > remaining GPL parts in my development tree.  If they can't have the same
> > license as the rest of the i915 code I will have to reimplement them.
> 
> Yes, that's a reasonable reason, which should be recorded in the commit
> message. It's maybe also worthy mentioning that the files are only
> touched by tree-wide changes in addition to Chris, so he's the sole
> author of the file. Documenting these two saves somebody a lot of
> digging when they come across the commit.
> 
> Pretty much everybody seems to be on their Thanksgiving holidays, so
> I'll expect a reply early next week from our legal.
> 
> Regards, Joonas

Thanks, I can send a v2 with that context if you like assuming they agree.
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