[PATCH] drm/tidss: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
Tomi Valkeinen
tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com
Thu Sep 12 18:21:19 UTC 2024
On 12/09/2024 21:08, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:04:11PM GMT, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:41:42 +0530, Devarsh Thakkar wrote:
>>> Modify license to include dual licensing as GPL-2.0-only OR MIT license for
>>> tidss display driver. This allows other operating system ecosystems such as
>>> Zephyr and also the commercial firmwares to refer and derive code from this
>>> display driver in a more permissive manner.
>>>
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>
>> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
>
> Also, we need the ack of all contributors to that driver, so my ack
> isn't enough to merge that patch.
IANAL, maybe a silly question: if someone from company XYZ has sent a
patch for tidss, don't we then need an ack from someone in XYZ who's
high enough in XYZ to allow changing the license for their code?
Tomi
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