[PATCH] drm/i915: change i915_sw_fence license to MIT

Joonas Lahtinen joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 28 17:44:34 UTC 2018


Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-11-23 16:53:46)
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:01:06PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-11-23 14:28:37)
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:14:00PM +0200, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > > > Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-11-20 00:31:22)
> > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 08:44:30PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:43:03AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > > > Quoting Jonathan Gray (2018-10-31 00:56:12)
> > > > > > > > > Chris Wilson said Intel is willing to change the license of these files
> > > > > > > > > to MIT.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au>
> > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > > > > > > -Chris
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Still looking to get this merged/reviewed by one of the i915 maintainers.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I believe this patch should have a better commit message.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It isn't clear what should be changed, what do you have in mind?
> > > > 
> > > > It would make sense to state why you want to change the license to begin
> > > > with.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyway, I'll double check with our legal team and reply shortly.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards, Joonas
> > > 
> > > I am porting the i915 code to OpenBSD again.  These files are the last
> > > remaining GPL parts in my development tree.  If they can't have the same
> > > license as the rest of the i915 code I will have to reimplement them.
> > 
> > Yes, that's a reasonable reason, which should be recorded in the commit
> > message. It's maybe also worthy mentioning that the files are only
> > touched by tree-wide changes in addition to Chris, so he's the sole
> > author of the file. Documenting these two saves somebody a lot of
> > digging when they come across the commit.
> > 
> > Pretty much everybody seems to be on their Thanksgiving holidays, so
> > I'll expect a reply early next week from our legal.
> > 
> > Regards, Joonas
> 
> Thanks, I can send a v2 with that context if you like assuming they agree.

Hi,

Please do send a v2, we got a permission to change the license.

Regards, Joonas


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