From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753537AbeERIvQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2018 04:51:16 -0400 Received: from mail.bootlin.com ([62.4.15.54]:51155 "EHLO mail.bootlin.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753441AbeERIVA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2018 04:21:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:20:58 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Joe Perches Cc: "David S . Miller" , Allan Nielsen , razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com, po.liu@nxp.com, Thomas Petazzoni , Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: mscc: Add SPDX identifier Message-ID: <20180518082058.GG6828@piout.net> References: <20180517192305.17517-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> <53ccb8c58e4c3e224ba694c0628096d0c041ba1a.camel@perches.com> <20180517193900.GE6828@piout.net> <20180518075227.GF6828@piout.net> <77d0d8ff4cb9984ac20546842292aafd9e3b2e25.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77d0d8ff4cb9984ac20546842292aafd9e3b2e25.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18/05/2018 01:14:25-0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Mostly, it's a question of what the original > license is. As far as I can tell, microsemi > publishes their code only under an MIT license. > This code didn't exist until I wrote it. The original license is the one from the SPDX identifier. > The MIT license does allow sublicensing, so > it does seem you can choose what additional > license restrictions you can assert as long > as the original MIT license is also followed. > Then all is good. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com