[Update license 1/1] drivers: clk: Update license for Intel N5X device

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 15:48:45 CEST 2022


On 7/5/22 5:47 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 10:58, <teik.heng.chong at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Teik Heng Chong <teik.heng.chong at intel.com>
>>
>> All the source code of clk-mem-n5x.c and clk-n5x.c are from Intel,
>> update the license to use both GPL2.0 and BSD-3 Clause because this
>> copy of code may used for open source and internal project.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Teik Heng Chong <teik.heng.chong at intel.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.c | 4 ++--
>>   drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.h | 4 ++--
>>   drivers/clk/altera/clk-n5x.c     | 4 ++--
>>   drivers/clk/altera/clk-n5x.h     | 4 ++--
>>   4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.c b/drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.c
>> index ca44998641..9bbe2cd0ca 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/altera/clk-mem-n5x.c
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
> 
> +Tom Rini
> 
> OR is not a license so I think you should drop that word.

OR is valid in SPDX license identifier expressions

https://spdx.dev/spdx-specification-21-web-version/#h.jxpfx0ykyb60

> Also U-Boot is GPL so seems strange to use a different license for
> these files. If it was wrong initially, perhaps add a 'Fixes' tag?

As used in U-Boot, this effectively is an AND (since this code will be
linked with GPL code). As stated in the commit message, presumably this
is to allow use in other (BSD-licensed) projects. Tom, do we generally
allow this sort of thing? Is it OK for someone to come along later and
change the license back (e.g. make it GPL-only again)?

I *would* like to see a RB or AB from Siew Chin Lim, since he is the
original author of this code, but since it is copyright Intel I suppose
it is fine to leave him out...

--Sean


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