linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm

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Message-ID: <20190815141440.GA20322@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:14:40 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@...renesas.com>,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@...esas.com>,
        Biju Das <biju.das@...renesas.com>,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@...asonboard.com>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@...ndi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] drm: Rename drm_bridge_timings to drm_timings

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:04:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:18:38PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hi Fabrizio,
> > 
> > (CC'ing Greg as the architect of the SPDX move)
> 
> _one of_, not the one that did the most of he work, that would be Thomas :)
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0100, Fabrizio Castro wrote:
> > > The information represented by drm_bridge_timings is also
> > > needed by panels, therefore rename drm_bridge_timings to
> > > drm_timings.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@...renesas.com>
> > > Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-renesas-soc/msg43271.html
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > v1->v2:
> > > * new patch
> > > 
> > > I have copied the license from include/drm/drm_bridge.h as that's
> > > where the struct originally came from. What's the right SPDX license
> > > to use in this case?
> > 
> > https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Decisions/Dealing_with_Public_Domain_within_SPDX_Files
> > 
> > Greg, any idea on how we should handle this ?
> 
> Ugh, what lunacy.  But drm_bridge.h is NOT under any "public domain"
> license, so why is that an issue here?  This looks like a "normal" bsd 3
> clause license to me, right?

You're right, I overread part of the text in drm_bridge.h, it seems to
indeed be covered by a BSD 3 clause license. Sorry for the noise.

> So I would just use "BSD-3-Clause" as the SPDX license here, if I were
> doing this patch...

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart