2022-11-16 11:02:09

by Matt Hsiao

Subject: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

From: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>

Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE
servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed
for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD.

Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>
---

Hello contributors in the CC list,

Thanks for your contributions to the hpilo driver. Please kindly review
the license change and hopefully you would agree and approve it. Thanks!

drivers/misc/hpilo.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/hpilo.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/hpilo.c b/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
index 8d00df9243c4..6a06b6485950 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
/*
* Driver for the HP iLO management processor.
*
diff --git a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
index d57c34680b09..581dfd7834b8 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
+++ b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT */
/*
* linux/drivers/char/hpilo.h
*
--
2.16.6

2022-11-16 11:25:36

by Arnd Bergmann

Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, at 10:47, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>
>
> Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE
> servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed
> for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

2022-11-16 11:53:25

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:47:12PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>
>
> Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE
> servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed
> for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <[email protected]>

For dual-license stuff like this, I need to see a signed-off-by: from
your corporate lawyer so that we know that they fully understand the
issues involved here with dual licenses.

You are free to take your original version from your company and submit
it to the BSD codebase, but when taking it from Linux like this, there
is a lot more process and issues involved and so we need HPE's lawyers
to sign off.

Without that, sorry, I can't take this change.

greg k-h