[PATCH 0/3] drm/tegra: Restore licensing consistency

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Feb 12 11:22:00 PST 2014


On 02/12/2014 12:13 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:46:57AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 02/12/2014 12:30 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> The bulk of the Tegra DRM driver is GPL v2 licensed, but some of the new
>>> subdrivers were licensed under an MIT license. This was simply oversight
>>> on my part.
>>>
>>> One exception to this is the public header file that will eventually be
>>> used within libdrm. Since all the other headers in libdrm use the MIT
>>> license, do the same for Tegra.
>>
>> The series,
>> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> I guess this needs explicit acks from the following people outside
>> NVIDIA who touched these files:?
>>
>> Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn> (dsi.c)
>> Emil Goode <emilgoode at gmail.com> (tegra_drm.h)
> 
> Does it? Those changes were mostly mechanical in nature, so I'm not sure
> if that qualifies them for having any bearing of the license of the
> file.
> 
> But if you insist I can resend with Wei and Emil on Cc.

Well, it seems simpler if you get an ack; that way it documents the
fact, and avoids any issues in the future, irrespective of whether those
changes convey (c) owderhsip or not.

I'd imagine you don't need a whole resend; just forward the email?


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