On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 07:50:34PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is not a DRM driver, it is an ASoC driver, and like I say DRM is a > > bit special. I do note that AMD has contributed at least its CCP and > > cpufreq drivers (indeed all their non-DRM code I could find with > > explicit license statements) under a normal kernel license. As far as I > > can tell this licensing is entirely confined to the DRM drivers. > > I am not readily able to convince myself that this is compatible with > > the intent of exporting the ASoC APIs _GPL(), this looks like it can be > > used as the basis for a shim layer for non-GPL code (the licensing > > strategy seems very similar). I'd need to think through this carefully. > If you have strong concerns, I can double check with our lawyers and > see about changing it, I'm just not sure how long that will take :( I at the very least need to think about this, it's really important to me that we don't want to see proprietary drivers. > The licensing tends to vary based on the teams involved. The ACP > audio and i2s was developed by the GPU teams and we've mostly worked > on drm and Xorg stuff until now. For reference the GPL code in the kernel includes at least: drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-*.c drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c and there's direct contributions from AMD there AFAICT, not just outside developers contributing support for AMD chips.
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