linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/tidss: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0

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Message-ID: <19f291d7-cb64-49b3-88e7-8541029cdf0d@ideasonboard.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:21:19 +0300
From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Devarsh Thakkar <devarsht@...com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/tidss: Add MIT license along with GPL-2.0

On 12/09/2024 21:08, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:04:11PM GMT, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:41:42 +0530, Devarsh Thakkar wrote:
>>> Modify license to include dual licensing as GPL-2.0-only OR MIT license for
>>> tidss display driver. This allows other operating system ecosystems such as
>>> Zephyr and also the commercial firmwares to refer and derive code from this
>>> display driver in a more permissive manner.
>>>
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>
>> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
> 
> Also, we need the ack of all contributors to that driver, so my ack
> isn't enough to merge that patch.

IANAL, maybe a silly question: if someone from company XYZ has sent a 
patch for tidss, don't we then need an ack from someone in XYZ who's 
high enough in XYZ to allow changing the license for their code?

  Tomi