On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:04:06AM -0800, Sridharan, Ranjani wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > Can I please bother you with you quick question about the right license > to > > use for the > > debug.c file in the SOF directory? > > What is "SOF"? > Its Sound Open Firmware in the sound/soc/sof dir > > > Currently, it is dual licensed with GPLv2.0 and BSD. But Pierre brought > up > > a concern about this conflicting with all the exports in the file being > > GPLv2.0. Should this be fixed to change the license to GPLv2.0 only? > > Appreciate your help in this regard. > > Why ask a developer a legal question, don't you all have a whole huge > legal department who knows all of this type of thing really really well? > > Would you ask a programmer a medical question? > > That being said, think about trying to justify the existance of a BSD > licensed file trying to access gpl-only symbols, why in the world would > this even be a question? Why have it dual licensed at all when I was > told that Intel was NOT going to do this anymore for any kernel code? > Thanks for your patience and clarification. We discovered the discrepancy while vetting the licenses in the files again. Something we should be a bit more careful about moving forward. Sorry for the trouble! Ranjani _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
