[alsa-devel] Question about the correct license to use with debugfs in SOF

[Sridharan, Ranjani]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM Greg KH <gregkh at 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