linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: net: dp8386x: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0

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Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 14:18:55 +0530
From: "Kumar, Udit" <u-kumar1@...com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
CC: <vigneshr@...com>, <nm@...com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        <robh@...nel.org>, <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kip Broadhurst <kbroadhurst@...com>,
        <w.egorov@...tec.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: net: dp8386x: Add MIT license along with
 GPL-2.0

Hi Conor

On 5/17/2024 8:11 PM, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
>> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 04:12:26PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:
>>> Modify license to include dual licensing as GPL-2.0-only OR MIT
>>> license for TI specific phy header files. This allows for Linux
>>> kernel files to be used in other Operating System ecosystems
>>> such as Zephyr or FreeBSD.
>> What's wrong with BSD-2-Clause, why not use that?
> I cut myself off, I meant to say:
> What's wrong with BSD-2-Clause, the standard dual license for
> bindings, why not use that?

want to be inline with License of top level DTS, which is including this 
header file

eg

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j722s-evm.dts#L1