From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out-186.mta0.migadu.com (out-186.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BEBF279915 for ; Thu, 8 May 2025 15:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.186 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746719879; cv=none; b=RhnZO1oZny09gTeELr0ZSwZOMS4NV88CH+4SG8+ev72H6fnuaPIA+gusH8ZsEf7Kt9WLdBebeqe/QV8C1i+PjdG9qmuNJqzCAuDQMm7Jo+YFAehH8OHdhtkZQomsZbjNwkcJp/8+GMRCkvgGxVMHBLa1qyJqfp3+EvH5yacWwho= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746719879; c=relaxed/simple; bh=mv6+AFQbMjS0ePIASEYb6FmIlCpd2gcgZiCc/i2a2Wk=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=mXpEWtQ34IgimH0EhRrY6Yr11Jd5IOJwu8GjayShs54YUThIsKrWpQFgPD3iJ+1HBvBWak6ZLDR2HppYYYaCtVNBK+HqivU9OrqHUPAzz4Lr8DjKMOtOeOuSHxdYWvpWzdeDumzY+AuBkQ9R1jGSC0G9DA7vxZirEReXc99/Xhs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=lJPdaR3F; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.186 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="lJPdaR3F" Message-ID: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.dev; s=key1; t=1746719874; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=oCf3z7hOXG7UGs2boSQYoGffK4tgAQHTQeG/mcAB+UQ=; b=lJPdaR3Fu+V9MjBKhXVqjM5ARaeWWWBzH7gr12dEMCD3CyGBvWqwd2190MaRx7p69jMmIS me9Q+Sv/63NVqHv5s6kUGxzTe24eHPO6Fi/A8TEbUJ//ht6I79MVTUFYi9LC30wv9H4eY/ baAF+k0hlVlEkJfa+yDCdl8n+4ngxXg= Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 11:57:46 -0400 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 05/11] net: pcs: lynx: Convert to an MDIO driver To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Vladimir Oltean , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Russell King , upstream@airoha.com, Christian Marangi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kory Maincent , Heiner Kallweit , Alexandre Belloni , Alexandre Torgue , Clark Wang , Claudiu Manoil , Ioana Ciornei , Joyce Ooi , Madalin Bucur , Maxime Coquelin , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Wei Fang , imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com References: <20250415193323.2794214-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250415193323.2794214-6-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250415193323.2794214-6-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250506215841.54rnxy3wqtlywxgb@skbuf> <50e809ea-62a4-413d-af63-7900929c3247@linux.dev> <50e809ea-62a4-413d-af63-7900929c3247@linux.dev> <20250506221834.uw5ijjeyinehdm3x@skbuf> <20250506222928.fozoqcxuf7roxur5@skbuf> <39753b36-adfd-4e00-beea-b58c1e5606e3@linux.dev> <90b2af4e-6c6e-41b9-be5b-ead443cd85b2@lunn.ch> Content-Language: en-US X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Sean Anderson In-Reply-To: <90b2af4e-6c6e-41b9-be5b-ead443cd85b2@lunn.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT Hi Andrew, On 5/6/25 20:19, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> > You will need to explain that better, because what I see is that the >> > "BSD-3-Clause" portion of the license has disappeared and that applies >> > file-wide, not just to your contribution. >> >> But I also have the option to just use the GPL-2.0+ license. When you >> have an SPDX like (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause) that means the authors gave >> permission to relicense it as >> >> - BSD-3-Clause >> - GPL-2.0+ >> - GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause >> - GPL-2.0 >> - GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause >> - GPL-3.0 >> - GPL-3.0 OR BSD-3-Clause >> - GPL-4.0 (if it ever happens) >> >> I want my contributions to remain free software, so I don't want to >> allow someone to take the BSD-3-Clause option (without the GPL). > > Please can you give us a summary of the licenses of this file over its > complete history. Maybe it started out as GPL, and somebody wanted > their parts to be under BSD, and so added the BSD parts? This is the original license added in commit 0da4c3d393e4 ("net: phy: add Lynx PCS module"). --Sean