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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950F0C433E0 for ; Wed, 20 May 2020 05:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F96207C4 for ; Wed, 20 May 2020 05:32:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1589952769; bh=7tEu4O1iMPzJPaYi3or7v6LTpc9n4YdaGJ9B5P21rKA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=1hE8x7DNL/zDF+0PDfD5x9XDu3immiGJ32Lq9mqcpYuNcFW8wgTVAdO/bGOhnhFFK RYlM0HAvGbyGTFd8wP2NSAyzNWdREhNQ98wDvC5cBA/ZKfW417iv9IPKpShKz22jHQ oCsKPxZFl1Iv2Z8Gg9/1MMtJc6JqoADUyy+GpquY= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726468AbgETFct (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2020 01:32:49 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40900 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726439AbgETFcs (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2020 01:32:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3AA4206C3; Wed, 20 May 2020 05:32:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1589952768; bh=7tEu4O1iMPzJPaYi3or7v6LTpc9n4YdaGJ9B5P21rKA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=AOnX2eEtKR8opNi+mBlx3JMw2exVc736Qy8loEWgXm3kMJbk+Wh5KjafcOlHxkrvO YsCrSNJ6NUfqVOPrwLbgGBoKcZzs75niXIPWWnicZ4QMf4m3db06WTOrPpvvjllBna xE11nJe3i4to4HoSi6Ppd4IIdogLyYO403kD+g/0= Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 07:32:45 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Jeffrey Hugo Cc: Dave Airlie , Arnd Bergmann , manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, wufan@codeaurora.org, pratanan@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 driver Message-ID: <20200520053245.GA2154372@kroah.com> References: <1589465266-20056-1-git-send-email-jhugo@codeaurora.org> <93238096-5861-c140-b94f-6137977c3d65@codeaurora.org> <20200519174120.GC1158284@kroah.com> <20200519181256.GA1215993@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:26:01PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > On 5/19/2020 12:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > Especially given the copyright owner of this code, that would be just > > > > crazy and foolish to not have open userspace code as well. Firmware > > > > would also be wonderful as well, go poke your lawyers about derivative > > > > work issues and the like for fun conversations :) > > > > > > Those are the kind of conversations I try to avoid :) > > > > Sounds like you are going to now have to have them, have fun! > > Honestly, I fail to see where you think there is a derivative work, so, I'm > not really sure what discussions I need to revisit with our lawyers. Given that we are not lawyers, why don't we leave those types of discussions up to the lawyers, and not depend on people like me and you for that? :) If your lawyers think that the code division is fine as-is, that's great, I'd be glad to review it if they add their signed-off-by: on it verifying that the api divide is approved by them. thanks! greg k-h