Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/1] mtd: rawnand: mtk: Re-license MTK NAND driver as Dual MIT/GPL

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On 2019-05-05 11:12, xiaolei li wrote:
Up to now,
Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (the author and major contributor),
Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx> (the author and
major contributor),
Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (developer),
Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> (developer)
sent ACK for this RFC patch.

May I ask if it is enough to accept this change? Or should I wait for
other developer's response?

I can't imagine re-licensing someone's work without a permission.

The best you can do is ignoring contributors that submitted changes that
aren't really copyrightable (something like fixing a comment typo, some
auto-generated diff-s).

I used following command to check mtk_nand.c file history:
# git log --follow drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mtk_nand.c | grep "Signed-off-by" | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n
     19     Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
     18     Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
15 Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      6     Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Li <xiaolei.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      3     Signed-off-by: RogerCC Lin <rogercc.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
2 Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      1     Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
      1     Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      1     Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
      1     Signed-off-by: Peter Pan <peterpandong@xxxxxxxxxx>
1 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 1 Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ideally you should still get acks from:

1) Miquel
Contributor of 21 changes

2) Boris
Contributor of 33 changes

3) RogerCC
Contributor of 3 changes:
98dea8d71931 ("mtd: nand: mtk: Support MT7622 NAND flash controller.")
b45ee5501ede ("mtd: nand: mtk: Support different MTK NAND flash controller IP") 559e58e7ed2d ("mtd: nand: fix chances to create incomplete ECC data when writing")

4) Wei
Contributor of 1 change:
07f76443ef81 ("mtd: nand: mediatek: remove redundant dev_err call in mtk_nfc_probe()")

5) Peter
Contributor of 1 change:
d4092d76a4a4 ("mtd: nand: Rename nand.h into rawnand.h")

6) Masahiro
Contributor of 1 change:
f0dbe4aa35e7 ("mtd: nand: mediatek: return error code of nand_scan_ident/tail() on error")

I guess we could accept your patch without acks from Wei, Peter and Masahiro.

You definitely need an approval from Miquel, Boris and RogerCC.

It doesn't seem you took this re-licensing task too seriously.

Please pay more attention to this licensing problem, you can start with doing
a similar research for mtk_ecc.c and mtk_ecc.h.

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