-----Original Message----- From: Pankaj Bansal Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 11:06 PM To: Leo Li leoyang.li@nxp.com Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot@aribaud.net; Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com; Priyanka Jain priyanka.jain@nxp.com; Varun Sethi V.Sethi@nxp.com; Mingkai Hu mingkai.hu@nxp.com Subject: RE: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11
++ Leo
Hi Leo. Can you please reply to this question ?
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini@konsulko.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:59 AM To: Pankaj Bansal pankaj.bansal@nxp.com Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot@aribaud.net; Priyanka Jain priyanka.jain@nxp.com; Varun Sethi V.Sethi@nxp.com; Mingkai Hu mingkai.hu@nxp.com Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 03:27:09AM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
HI,
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini@konsulko.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:32 AM To: Pankaj Bansal pankaj.bansal@nxp.com Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot@aribaud.net; Priyanka Jain priyanka.jain@nxp.com; Varun Sethi V.Sethi@nxp.com; Mingkai
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mingkai.hu@nxp.com Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under X11
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 08:03:54AM +0530, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
The current GPL only licensing on the device trees makes it very impractical for other software components licensed under another license.
To make it easier to reuse them, re-license the the device trees for Freescale (now NXP) SoCs and boards under license X11.
Cc: Priyanka Jain priyanka.jain@nxp.com Cc: Mingkai Hu mingkai.hu@nxp.com Cc: York Sun york.sun@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bansal pankaj.bansal@nxp.com
arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-frdm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-frdm.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-qds.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-qds.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-rdb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a-rdb.dtsi | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1012a.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds-duart.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds-lpuart.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-qds.dtsi | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a-rdb.dts | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1043a.dtsi | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds-duart.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds-lpuart.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-qds.dtsi | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a-rdb.dts | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi | 4 +--- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a-qds.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a-rdb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1088a.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a-qds.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a-rdb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2080a.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2081a-rdb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls2088a-rdb-qspi.dts | 2 +- 25 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
How do these changes match up to the kernel? Thanks!
The kernel dts files are GPLv2 and X11 dual licensed. E.g. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable. gi t/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1046a.dtsi
To avoid dual licensing, we used X11 only. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License
Why would we not want to match the kernel here?
As we are working with Qualcomm for the potential acquisition, their legal team mentioned that they are against using dual license. So as we are updating the license we would like to take that concern too.
Regards, Leo