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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: pcie: align licensing to dual GPL/BSD
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     sedat.dilek@gmail.com
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Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:36:12 +0200
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On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 09:33 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> 
> > Align the licenses with their permission to clean up and to
> > make it all identical.
> > 
> 
> Does it make sense to put the BSD license (text) in a separate file
> (like GPL) and reference it?

I agree that it would, and in fact we already have it available to
reference with the SPDX in the LICENSES directory.

However, no files of the iwlwifi driver currently do that, and I'd
prefer doing that sort of cleanup more generally as a separate step.

johannes