Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/1] mtd: rawnand: mtk: Re-license MTK NAND driver as Dual MIT/GPL

From: xiaolei li <xiaolei.li-NuS5LvNUpcJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/1] mtd: rawnand: mtk: Re-license MTK NAND driver as Dual MIT/GPL
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 09:42:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1558057342.26455.105.camel@mhfsdcap03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3edbd5a4-4226-4cec-052a-81f7251817a1-g1n6cQUeyibVItvQsEIGlw@public.gmane.org>

Hi Arnd,

You ever sent one patch to improve MTK NAND driver,
commit 8ff0513bdcdd ("mtd: mtk: avoid warning in mtk_ecc_encode")

Now we want to relicense MTK NAND driver as Dual MIT/GPL and wish to get
your ACK.

It will be helpful if you can send your ACK.

Thanks,
Xiaolei

On Tue, 2019-05-07 at 12:48 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> Arnd: would you send you Ack, just so we are 100% on a legal side?
> 
> 
> On 07.05.2019 11:20, Xiaolei Li wrote:
> > It is wanted to use MTK NAND driver with GPL-2.0 or MIT license.
> > But now it is only licensed as GPL-2.0.
> > So re-license it as dual MIT/GPL and replace license text with
> > SPDX tag.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com>
> > Acked-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
> > Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> > Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
> > Acked-by: RogerCC Lin <rogercc.lin@mediatek.com>
> 
> 
> For mtk_nand.c we are missing acks from (co-)authors of following commits:
> 1) Wei:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07f76443ef81e2b76bb6f7858ba183cd60357ada
> 2) Peter:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4092d76a4a4e57b65910899948a83cc8646c5a5
> 3) Masahiro:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f0dbe4aa35e73e4282d9446abb8900ab0636d483
> 
> All are absolutely trivial.
> 
> 
> For mtk_ecc.c are are missing acks from (co-)authors of following commits:
> 1) Wen:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0119720a00b20074a51245427f05366ede2fa90a
> 2) Gustavo:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=238709b22097a16839078530e0a10812dde86f16
> 3) Arnd:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ff0513bdcdd71e84aa561cce216675d43fb41b8
> 
> The only /complex/ change is from Arnd. I'm not sure if that is
> copyrightable or not.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # git log --follow drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mtk_nand.c | grep "Signed-off-by" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
>       20     Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
>       18     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
>       15     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
>        6     Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com>
>        3     Signed-off-by: RogerCC Lin <rogercc.lin@mediatek.com>
>        2     Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Peter Pan <peterpandong@micron.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
> 
> * Boris (contributor of 34 changes) - Acked
> * Miquel (contributor of 22 changes) - Acked
> * Xiaolei (contributor of 6 changes) - Signed
> * RogerCC (contributor of 3 changes) - Acked
> * Rafał (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Jorge (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Ryder (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> 
> * Wei (contributor of 1 change):
> 07f76443ef81 ("mtd: nand: mediatek: remove redundant dev_err call in mtk_nfc_probe()")
> 
> * Peter (contributor of 1 change):
> d4092d76a4a4 ("mtd: nand: Rename nand.h into rawnand.h")
> 
> * Masahiro (contributor of 1 change):
> f0dbe4aa35e7 ("mtd: nand: mediatek: return error code of nand_scan_ident/tail() on error")
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # git log --follow drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mtk_ecc.c | grep "Signed-off-by" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
>       13     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
>        6     Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com>
>        3     Signed-off-by: RogerCC Lin <rogercc.lin@mediatek.com>
>        2     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <yellowriver2010@hotmail.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> * Boris (contributor of 15 changes) - Acked
> * Xiaolei (contributor of 6 changes) - Signed
> * RogerCC (contributor of 3 changes) - Acked
> * Ryder (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Miquel (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Jorge (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Dan (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> 
> * Wen (contributor of 1 change):
> 0119720a00b2 ("mtd: rawnand: mtk: fix possible object reference leak")
> 
> * Gustavo (contributor of 1 change):
> 238709b22097 ("mtd: nand: mtk: fix error return code in mtk_ecc_probe()")
> 
> * Arnd (contributor of 1 change):
> 8ff0513bdcdd ("mtd: mtk: avoid warning in mtk_ecc_encode")
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # git log --follow drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mtk_ecc.h | grep "Signed-off-by" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
>        3     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@mediatek.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: RogerCC Lin <rogercc.lin@mediatek.com>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
>        1     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
> 
> * Boris (contributor of 4 changes) - Acked
> * Xiaolei (contributor of 1 change) - Signed
> * RogerCC (contributor of 1 change) - Acked
> * Jorge (contributor of 1 change) - Acked

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