linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/14] soundwire: Add SoundWire bus type

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Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:52:54 +0100
From:   Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:     Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ALSA <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, Mark <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Takashi <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Pierre <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sanyog Kale <sanyog.r.kale@...el.com>,
        Shreyas NC <shreyas.nc@...el.com>, patches.audio@...el.com,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        Sagar Dharia <sdharia@...eaurora.org>,
        srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org, plai@...eaurora.org,
        Sudheer Papothi <spapothi@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] soundwire: Add SoundWire bus type

> > I quick grep on Dual license users looks like we already have this
> > in kernel
> > code. See drivers/ntb/hw/intel/ntb_hw_intel.c
> 
> Just because someone did something wrong in the past, doesn't mean
> they
> should keep doing more wrong things in the future :)

What makes you think it's wrong ? It's the same approach the kernel has
been using since back to Linux 1.2 and maybe earlier.

I know it's not your intention but you are also going to look bad to
the BSD and other communities if you try and break dual licensing as a
standard Linux thing for some code. It goes back decades (Ted's random
driver for example).

Alan