[PATCH] spi: mediatek: Re-license MTK SPI driver as Dual MIT/GPL

Leilk Liu leilk.liu at mediatek.com
Wed Mar 3 09:02:39 GMT 2021


On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 08:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:56:36AM +0800, Leilk Liu wrote:
> > From: "leilk.liu" <leilk.liu at mediatek.com>
> > 
> > It is wanted to use MTK spi bus driver with GPL-2.0 or MIT license.
> > But now it is only licensed as GPL-2.0, so re-license it as dual
> > MIT/GPL.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: leilk.liu <leilk.liu at mediatek.com>
> 
> Please use your name here, not an email alias for where your name goes.
> 
OK, I'll fix it, thanks!
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c                 | 4 ++--
> >  include/linux/platform_data/spi-mt65xx.h | 2 +-
> 
> Given that these files have been licensed under the GPL only since 2015,
> all changes contributed to it have only been licensed under the GPL as
> well, so have you gotten approval for all of the contributors for this
> change?
> 
This is the reason that I sent this patch to ask for ACKs from all
contributors (who are all in the To mail-list) for these files.

> Can you please get your lawyer to also sign off on this license change
> patch, so that we know that you have their approval for this incase
> there are questions about it in the future?
> 
I need to use the code in other projects that is not with GPL-2.0.
Also, the license change is approved by Mediatek supervisor.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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