linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZaaZArEhw3iWaQagrKa__+DcrzSY4i7PWNYwhUiNtm4A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:53:25 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
Cc:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Linux MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] pinctrl: Add Microsemi Ocelot SoC driver

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
<pombredanne@...b.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
>>
>> Wow never saw that before. OK I guess.
>
> That's the new thing. Less legalese boilerplate, and more code for the
> better IMHO.
>
> You can check the doc patches from Thomas for details [1]
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/934

Yeah I'm aware of this part, but I didn't see that combined license
before.

What is the reason for not just using GPL 2 here?

Yours,
Linus Walleij