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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: mscc: Add SPDX identifier
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:20:58 +0200
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Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@microsemi.com>,
        razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com, po.liu@nxp.com,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
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To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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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.


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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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