[PATCH 2/3] drm: uapi: Use SPDX in DRM drivers uAPI headers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:30 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 02:52:25PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> > > [AMD Public Use]
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:15 PM
> > > > To: Koenig, Christian <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>
> > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>; Laurent Pinchart
> > > > <laurent.pinchart+renesas at ideasonboard.com>; dri-
> > > > devel at lists.freedesktop.org; Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>; Greg Kroah-
> > > > Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>; Thomas Gleixner
> > > > <tglx at linutronix.de>; Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com>;
> > > > Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>; Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run>; Ben
> > > > Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>;
> > > > Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>; Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>;
> > > > VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer at vmware.com>; Thomas
> > > > Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm: uapi: Use SPDX in DRM drivers uAPI headers
> > > >
> > > > Hi Christian,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 04:05:42PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > > > Am 17.07.20 um 04:27 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > > > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:29:33AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:58:44AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > > > >>> Am 21.06.20 um 04:07 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > > > > >>>> Most of the DRM drivers uAPI headers are licensed under the MIT
> > > > > >>>> license, and carry copies of the license with slight variations.
> > > > > >>>> Replace them with SPDX headers.
> > > > > >>> My personal opinion is that this is a really good idea, but my
> > > > > >>> professional is that we need the acknowledgment from our legal
> > > > department for this.
> > > > > >> I think official ack from amd on first patch, especially the .rst
> > > > > >> snippet, would be really good indeed.
> > > > > > Any update on this one ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry totally forgot to forward this because I was waiting for split
> > > > > up patches.
> > > > >
> > > > > Going to do so right now.
> > > >
> > > > Has there been any update ? :-)
> > >
> > > AMD legal requires the full license.
> >
> > Um, what?  Please let me talk to them about this, it's not ok for one
> > individual company, out of 450+, to somehow decide to do something
> > different.
> >
> > Please put your lawyers in contact with me and I will have them discuss
> > it with the proper lawyers on our side.
> 
> After more discussion, the lawyers have allowed us to use the SPDX licenses now.

Wonderful, thanks for pushing this through and letting us know!

greg k-h