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* [PATCH] drm/gpuvm: Dual-licence the drm_gpuvm code GPL-2.0 OR MIT
@ 2023-10-10 14:27 Thomas Hellström
  2023-10-17  7:54 ` Danilo Krummrich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Hellström @ 2023-10-10 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-xe, dri-devel
  Cc: Thomas Hellström, Danilo Krummrich, airlied, daniel,
	linux-kernel

Dual-licence in order to make it possible for other non-GPL os'es
to re-implement the code. The use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is intentionally
left untouched to prevent use of drm_gpuvm as a proxy for non-GPL drivers
to access GPL-only kernel symbols.

Much of the ideas and algorithms used in the drm_gpuvm code is already
present in one way or another in MIT-licensed code.

Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>
Cc: airlied@gmail.com
Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c | 2 +-
 include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
index 02ce6baacdad..08c088319652 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2022 Red Hat.
  *
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h b/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
index 361fea5cb849..21bbf11415b3 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_gpuvm.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT */
 
 #ifndef __DRM_GPUVM_H__
 #define __DRM_GPUVM_H__
-- 
2.41.0


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