-----Original Message----- From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini@konsulko.com] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:34 PM To: Pankaj Bansal pankaj.bansal@nxp.com Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot@aribaud.net; Varun Sethi V.Sethi@nxp.com; Leo Li leoyang.li@nxp.com; Priyanka Jain priyanka.jain@nxp.com; Mingkai Hu mingkai.hu@nxp.com; York Sun york.sun@nxp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:43:33AM +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 GPLv2+/X11 dual license.
Same trend is followed in linux.
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
Notes: V2: - Change license from X11 only to GPL2.0+/X11 dual license. - Updated the commit message accordingly.
OK. But what does the kernel have for these exact files?
The exact same files in linux kernel are GPLv2 and X11 dual licensed. Here is an excerpt from fsl-ls1043a.dtsi * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms * of the GPLv2 or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a * whole. *
If it's GPL2.0+/X11 dual, then this is just a normal sync with Linux Kernel v4.xx and you should say that in the commit message.
I mentioned in commit message "Same trend is followed in linux."
If you haven't gotten these merged to a Linux Kernel release, are they in -next there?
These changes are already in linux.
Thanks!
-- Tom