RE: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm_timings

[Fabrizio Castro]

Hi Greg, hi Laurent,

Thank you for your feedback!

> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 15 August 2019 15:53
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm_timings
> 
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:31:26PM +0000, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > Hi Greg, hi Laurent,
> >
> > Thank you for your feedback!
> >
> > > From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Laurent Pinchart
> > > Sent: 15 August 2019 15:15
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm_timings
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:18:38PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > > Hi Fabrizio,
> > > > >
> > > > > (CC'ing Greg as the architect of the SPDX move)
> > > >
> > > > _one of_, not the one that did the most of he work, that would be Thomas :)
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0100, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > > > > > The information represented by drm_bridge_timings is also
> > > > > > needed by panels, therefore rename drm_bridge_timings to
> > > > > > drm_timings.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-renesas-soc/msg43271.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > v1->v2:
> > > > > > * new patch
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have copied the license from include/drm/drm_bridge.h as that's
> > > > > > where the struct originally came from. What's the right SPDX license
> > > > > > to use in this case?
> > > > >
> > > > > https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Decisions/Dealing_with_Public_Domain_within_SPDX_Files
> > > > >
> > > > > Greg, any idea on how we should handle this ?
> > > >
> > > > Ugh, what lunacy.  But drm_bridge.h is NOT under any "public domain"
> > > > license, so why is that an issue here?  This looks like a "normal" bsd 3
> > > > clause license to me, right?
> > >
> > > You're right, I overread part of the text in drm_bridge.h, it seems to
> > > indeed be covered by a BSD 3 clause license. Sorry for the noise.
> >
> > Mmm... This is the template for the BSD-3-Clause:
> >
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> >
> > And this is the license coming from include/drm/drm_bridge.h:
> >
> > /*
> >  * Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation
> >  *
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> >
> > Perhaps I am completely wrong here, and I am not a lawyer, but the wording seems different enough to me...
> > I am happy to use "BSD-3-Clause" though. Laurent please double check.
> 
> Please talk to your lawyers about this, we are not them...

I am really sorry for the trouble (and the waste of time)!

I'll try and use "BSD-3-Clause" for the next version and I'll see what happens.

Thanks,
Fab

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h