From:   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me?= Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc:     devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/31] staging: wfx: fix HIF API license
Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:16:07 +0100
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On Thursday 13 January 2022 12:50:23 CET Kalle Valo wrote:
> Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com> writes:
>=20
> > From: J=E9r=F4me Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> >
> > Apache-2.0 is not allowed in the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: J=E9r=F4me Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@silabs.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_cmd.h     | 2 +-
> >  drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_general.h | 2 +-
> >  drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_mib.h     | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_cmd.h b/drivers/staging/wfx/hi=
f_api_cmd.h
> > index b0aa13b23a51..b1829d01a5d9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_cmd.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/hif_api_cmd.h
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 */
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only or Apache-2.0 */
>=20
> Is the Apache-2.0 license really mandatory? LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 is
> not really supportive.

[usual "I am not a lawyer" preamble]

hmm... I don't think it is really mandatory. However, I would more
confident if we could keep the original license also (I think the idea
behind is to not prevent someone to reuse this header in any other
project).


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