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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm_timings
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:14:40 +0300
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Hi Greg,

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:18:38PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi Fabrizio,
> > 
> > (CC'ing Greg as the architect of the SPDX move)
> 
> _one of_, not the one that did the most of he work, that would be Thomas :)
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0100, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > > The information represented by drm_bridge_timings is also
> > > needed by panels, therefore rename drm_bridge_timings to
> > > drm_timings.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com>
> > > Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-renesas-soc/msg43271.html
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > v1->v2:
> > > * new patch
> > > 
> > > I have copied the license from include/drm/drm_bridge.h as that's
> > > where the struct originally came from. What's the right SPDX license
> > > to use in this case?
> > 
> > https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Decisions/Dealing_with_Public_Domain_within_SPDX_Files
> > 
> > Greg, any idea on how we should handle this ?
> 
> Ugh, what lunacy.  But drm_bridge.h is NOT under any "public domain"
> license, so why is that an issue here?  This looks like a "normal" bsd 3
> clause license to me, right?

You're right, I overread part of the text in drm_bridge.h, it seems to
indeed be covered by a BSD 3 clause license. Sorry for the noise.

> So I would just use "BSD-3-Clause" as the SPDX license here, if I were
> doing this patch...

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart