Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935789AbdLRQJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:09:26 -0500 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([62.4.15.54]:57474 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935722AbdLRQJL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:09:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:09:00 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Philippe Ombredanne Cc: Linus Walleij , Ralf Baechle , Linux MIPS , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver Message-ID: <20171218160900.GR7022@piout.net> References: <20171208154618.20105-1-alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> <20171208154618.20105-6-alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 41 On 15/12/2017 at 08:59:15 +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Alexandre, Linux > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Linus Walleij > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Philippe Ombredanne > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > >>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) > >>> > >>> Wow never saw that before. OK I guess. > >> > >> That's the new thing. Less legalese boilerplate, and more code for the > >> better IMHO. > >> > >> You can check the doc patches from Thomas for details [1] > >> > >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/934 > > > > Yeah I'm aware of this part, but I didn't see that combined license > > before. > > > > What is the reason for not just using GPL 2 here? > > Linus, > That'a a question for Alexandre that submitted this patch in the first > place, not me. > > Alexandre? > I'm not the one taking that decision and I don't think this choice has a particular issue (we use the same one for device trees). I guess the idea behind it is to be able to reuse the same code in other non-GPL projects. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com