From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: "Kumar, Udit" <u-kumar1@ti.com>
Cc: vigneshr@ti.com, nm@ti.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kip Broadhurst <kbroadhurst@ti.com>,
w.egorov@phytec.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: net: dp8386x: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 18:17:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240520-discard-fanatic-f8e686a4faad@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e56ea52-9e58-4291-8f7f-4721dd74c72f@ti.com>
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On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 02:18:55PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote:
> Hi Conor
>
> On 5/17/2024 8:11 PM, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 04:12:26PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:
> > > > Modify license to include dual licensing as GPL-2.0-only OR MIT
> > > > license for TI specific phy header files. This allows for Linux
> > > > kernel files to be used in other Operating System ecosystems
> > > > such as Zephyr or FreeBSD.
> > > What's wrong with BSD-2-Clause, why not use that?
> > I cut myself off, I meant to say:
> > What's wrong with BSD-2-Clause, the standard dual license for
> > bindings, why not use that?
>
> want to be inline with License of top level DTS, which is including this
> header file
Unless there's a specific reason to use MIT (like your legal won't even
allow you to use BSD-2-Clause) then please just use the normal license
for bindings here.
Cheers,
Conor.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-20 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-17 10:42 [PATCH] dt-bindings: net: dp8386x: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0 Udit Kumar
2024-05-17 13:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2024-05-17 14:17 ` Kumar, Udit
2024-05-17 14:39 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-17 14:41 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-18 8:48 ` Kumar, Udit
2024-05-20 17:17 ` Conor Dooley [this message]
2024-05-20 20:18 ` Rob Herring
2024-05-22 8:04 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-05-22 10:25 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-22 13:40 ` Nishanth Menon
2024-05-22 15:37 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-22 17:39 ` Kumar, Udit
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