Re: [PATCH] drm/tidss: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Thu Sep 12 2024 - 14:27:09 EST


On 12/09/2024 21:08, Maxime Ripard wrote:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:04:11PM GMT, Maxime Ripard wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:41:42 +0530, Devarsh Thakkar wrote:
Modify license to include dual licensing as GPL-2.0-only OR MIT license for
tidss display driver. This allows other operating system ecosystems such as
Zephyr and also the commercial firmwares to refer and derive code from this
display driver in a more permissive manner.


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Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Also, we need the ack of all contributors to that driver, so my ack
isn't enough to merge that patch.

IANAL, maybe a silly question: if someone from company XYZ has sent a patch for tidss, don't we then need an ack from someone in XYZ who's high enough in XYZ to allow changing the license for their code?

Tomi