Re: [PATCH] misc: hpilo: relicense HPE iLO driver as Dual MIT/GPL

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 05:10:49 EST


On 16. 11. 22, 10:47, matt.hsiao@xxxxxxx wrote:
From: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@xxxxxxx>

Currently, the hpilo driver is licensed as GPL. To run OpenBSD on HPE
servers with BMC (HPE iLO) functionality, a dual MIT/GPL license is needed
for porting the hpilo driver to OpenBSD.

What about the MODULE_LICENSE() change to "Dual MIT/GPL" too?

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@xxxxxxx>
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Hello contributors in the CC list,

Thanks for your contributions to the hpilo driver. Please kindly review
the license change and hopefully you would agree and approve it. Thanks!

drivers/misc/hpilo.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/hpilo.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/hpilo.c b/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
index 8d00df9243c4..6a06b6485950 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/hpilo.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
/*
* Driver for the HP iLO management processor.
*
diff --git a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
index d57c34680b09..581dfd7834b8 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
+++ b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT */
/*
* linux/drivers/char/hpilo.h
*

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