From:   "Gaba, Aahit" <aahit.gaba@hpe.com>
To:     "Hsiao, Matt (CBG Linux Enablement)" <matt.hsiao@hpe.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL
Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL
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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 03:59:04 +0000
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 09:29:00AM +0530, Aahit Gaba wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:36:40PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 06:34:57PM +0800, matt.hsiao@hpe.com wrote:
> > > From: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@hpe.com>
> > >
> > > 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 <matt.hsiao@hpe.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > 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 i=
t.
> Thanks!
> > >
> > > Patch v2:
> > > ---------
> > > - Change MODULE_LICENSE to Dual MIT/GPL too
> >
> > As I asked for on the v1 version (delayed email on my side), I need a
> > lawyer from HPE to sign off on this change as well.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>=20
> Add HPE attorney Aahit Gaba to sign off.

Signed-off-by: Aahit Gaba <aahit.gaba@hpe.com>

The reasons we want to dual license Linux hpilo driver are:
- There are required bug fixes that are not copyrighted by HPE in the curre=
nt Linux hpilo driver.
- We want to maintain one hpilo driver between Linux and OpenBSD, and dual-=
licensing of hpilo driver's existing codebase and all the future bug fixes =
are the requirements for it. Therefore, we requested all other copyright ow=
ners of Linux hpilo driver to accept dual-licensing (MIT/GPL-2.0) for their=
 respective contributions.