From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E04410E0; Wed, 7 May 2025 00:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746577186; cv=none; b=Tp67Hoj8huqkKrFkWfpZXiZ4Cn59s0Q6ft5Rkjgw7VyAi5cKmd5No+bijKUjofyoVty0+9Rv+KWzzTCMgKKPHS8nknJsUC9iWN90MKMBVB6GlHPmjODJFDEENburtXhzCSe/fPnr44qCaYZd+sTsr8SI73muXKeTZDesKOIMVfo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746577186; c=relaxed/simple; bh=fZxGcNvTdZTFQLMlJzF/fwaxYwZT8e6wbu3mTrUHadg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ZSMO+LlMtJfEC9XJ6UoEPI+hea7MLOtnGzKnog0HJeJxx+R6gN/vn9D387SbIK7zjhfH59GpZt1l1XjjbPFOcBW9CzklfE0xn/bklg224xhMFH/Zul8D4bu/x6BcAnqIFWL28+dBfuiyematj8B4JWIRqCqdRCjOhX9ENAuLLag= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=xgPdcWUh; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="xgPdcWUh" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=xTXkZlmGU0IUIeI5o1mZLEL2Y+CPmDfnV2Cutj83nfI=; b=xgPdcWUhv4EFQcPM13XcmfmxKb aBP9zY+Xa7DSWHBgJrqyf7u/sw7qlCR0Bx+JRNdmgf2DqObdL1PgiPlD3I2EcCQdaz5yhx0qDV2go qnPTEFZTNRz/ekJxgctQ4Fo8g25YfU4FFQ42XSzEzlnjWpqW9mIY7a3szBE35MoooSm0=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uCSVU-00BpHj-5F; Wed, 07 May 2025 02:19:28 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 02:19:28 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Sean Anderson Cc: Vladimir Oltean , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , upstream@airoha.com, Christian Marangi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kory Maincent , Heiner Kallweit , Alexandre Belloni , Alexandre Torgue , Clark Wang , Claudiu Manoil , Ioana Ciornei , Joyce Ooi , Madalin Bucur , Maxime Coquelin , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Wei Fang , imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 05/11] net: pcs: lynx: Convert to an MDIO driver Message-ID: <90b2af4e-6c6e-41b9-be5b-ead443cd85b2@lunn.ch> References: <20250415193323.2794214-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250415193323.2794214-6-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250415193323.2794214-6-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250506215841.54rnxy3wqtlywxgb@skbuf> <50e809ea-62a4-413d-af63-7900929c3247@linux.dev> <50e809ea-62a4-413d-af63-7900929c3247@linux.dev> <20250506221834.uw5ijjeyinehdm3x@skbuf> <20250506222928.fozoqcxuf7roxur5@skbuf> <39753b36-adfd-4e00-beea-b58c1e5606e3@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: imx@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <39753b36-adfd-4e00-beea-b58c1e5606e3@linux.dev> > > You will need to explain that better, because what I see is that the > > "BSD-3-Clause" portion of the license has disappeared and that applies > > file-wide, not just to your contribution. > > But I also have the option to just use the GPL-2.0+ license. When you > have an SPDX like (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause) that means the authors gave > permission to relicense it as > > - BSD-3-Clause > - GPL-2.0+ > - GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause > - GPL-2.0 > - GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause > - GPL-3.0 > - GPL-3.0 OR BSD-3-Clause > - GPL-4.0 (if it ever happens) > > I want my contributions to remain free software, so I don't want to > allow someone to take the BSD-3-Clause option (without the GPL). Please can you give us a summary of the licenses of this file over its complete history. Maybe it started out as GPL, and somebody wanted their parts to be under BSD, and so added the BSD parts? Andrew