On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 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