License?

[kallisti5]

To help as many operating systems add support for the T2 chipset as quickly as possible, could you offer this code as MIT licensed or BSD licensed?

[MCMrARM]

I don't think it should be a huge issue to dual license this to MIT/BSD, even though I prefer GPL for this for now, but if it's stopping you from upstreaming it to some other distros, I am willing to dual license it. Are you interested in porting it to other distros?

[kallisti5]

Hi! yeah, i'm one of the developers of the Haiku operating system (MIT Licensed). Recently got a MacBook Pro for work and wanted to see if I could improve the T2 Chipset situation by porting these changes over to a few drivers.

[MCMrARM]

Sure, go ahead, I approve MIT as an optional licensing option of the current source tree (so up to 2019-01-20), feel free to refer to this comment for now as the license note, as the license in the repo will likely be stuck on GPL (and the repo will eventually probably be achieved once it gets accepted upstream).

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Paul Pawlowski

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SOFTWARE.

[davidak]

Can you actually add a LICENSE file? That would make the situation clear and help to package it. Also, potential contributors know what they are dealing with. By default it's all rights reserved.

GPL ensures that it does not end up in proprietary software.