Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: net: dp8386x: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Mon May 20 2024 - 13:18:10 EST


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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