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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Sep 13 2024 - 03:46:15 EST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> >> On 9/12/24 7:11 PM, 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.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Devarsh Thakkar <devarsht@xxxxxx>
> >>
> >> My only contribution to this driver was through DRM refactorings,
> >> but anyways:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Similar for me. I only touched one of the affected files with a
> > refactoring change (34cdd1f691ade28abd36ce3cab8f9d442f43bf3f). I don't
> > assume this gives me any copyright to that driver, but to simplify
> > things:
> >
> > Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Similar for me too. My only change to this driver I think was to add DRM
> panic support in commit b2cb6011bcaf ("drm/tidss: Add drm_panic support").
>
> But I'm also OK with the change, so:
>
> Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>

Similar for me, just a forgotten comment update.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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