From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Linux MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:09:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171218160900.GR7022@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFm3uFsM5Bbb2V-HYKf1kJgHokjUkuRLTht+7gO=-sxJ50faA@mail.gmail.com>
On 15/12/2017 at 08:59:15 +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> Alexandre, Linux
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
> > <pombredanne@nexb.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
> >>>
> >>> Wow never saw that before. OK I guess.
> >>
> >> That's the new thing. Less legalese boilerplate, and more code for the
> >> better IMHO.
> >>
> >> You can check the doc patches from Thomas for details [1]
> >>
> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/934
> >
> > Yeah I'm aware of this part, but I didn't see that combined license
> > before.
> >
> > What is the reason for not just using GPL 2 here?
>
> Linus,
> That'a a question for Alexandre that submitted this patch in the first
> place, not me.
>
> Alexandre?
>
I'm not the one taking that decision and I don't think this choice has a
particular issue (we use the same one for device trees).
I guess the idea behind it is to be able to reuse the same code in other
non-GPL projects.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-18 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 15:46 [PATCH v2 00/13] MIPS: add support for the Microsemi MIPS SoCs Alexandre Belloni
2017-12-08 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Add bindings for Microsemi Ocelot Alexandre Belloni
2017-12-13 7:39 ` Linus Walleij
2017-12-08 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver Alexandre Belloni
2017-12-13 8:15 ` Linus Walleij
2017-12-13 9:23 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-14 23:53 ` Linus Walleij
2017-12-15 7:59 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-18 16:09 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2018-01-05 23:46 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-01-06 0:09 ` [PATCH v3] " Alexandre Belloni
2018-01-09 13:56 ` Linus Walleij
2018-01-09 14:07 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-12-17 16:59 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] MIPS: add support for the Microsemi MIPS SoCs PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
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