linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

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Message-ID: <Y3TKkJFKWvCEKZg1@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:33:36 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     matt.hsiao@....com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr, gustavoars@...nel.org,
        nishadkamdar@...il.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:47:12PM +0800, matt.hsiao@....com wrote:
> From: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@....com>
> 
> Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE
> servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed
> for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@....com>

For dual-license stuff like this, I need to see a signed-off-by: from
your corporate lawyer so that we know that they fully understand the
issues involved here with dual licenses.

You are free to take your original version from your company and submit
it to the BSD codebase, but when taking it from Linux like this, there
is a lot more process and issues involved and so we need HPE's lawyers
to sign off.

Without that, sorry, I can't take this change.

greg k-h