Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver

Linus Walleij
2017-12-14T23:53:29Z

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?

Yours,
Linus Walleij