Re: [U-Boot] Individual files dual licenses

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:25:01PM +0000, York Sun wrote:

Tom and Wolfgang,

Do we have guideline on dual licensing the code in U-Boot? If I collect consent from all contributors and copyright holders to a particular file, am I able to re-license the file? If yes, how to determine the list of contributors?

In general, I think you would use 'git log' to see who contributed to a given file, and make sure that everyone who authored a change signed off on the license change.

With regards to dts files, this is another reason I would like to see that done as a strict re-sync with Linux rather than a stand-alone change. Saying we're importing file X from the kernel at revision Y makes the license change pretty easy to spot and justify.