Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Fri Dec 15 2017 - 03:00:03 EST


Alexandre, Linux

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
> <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
>>>
>>> Wow never saw that before. OK I guess.
>>
>> That's the new thing. Less legalese boilerplate, and more code for the
>> better IMHO.
>>
>> You can check the doc patches from Thomas for details [1]
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/934
>
> Yeah I'm aware of this part, but I didn't see that combined license
> before.
>
> What is the reason for not just using GPL 2 here?

Linus,
That'a a question for Alexandre that submitted this patch in the first
place, not me.

Alexandre?

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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne