Re: GPLv3 file in barebox

[Teresa Remmet <t.remmet@phytec.de>]

Hello Sascha,

Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2017, 10:53 +0100 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> We have found that commands/mmc_extcsd.c is licensed under GPLv3
> which
> is incompatible to the barebox GPLv2 license. Are you ok with
> relicensing this file? Otherwise we would have to remove it from
> barebox.
> If you're ok with relicensing the file please just ack the following
> patch.

Daniel is out of office until the start of march. So he might not
answer this mail till then. I hope this is ok...

Regards,
Teresa

> 
> Sascha
> 
> ---------------------------------8<----------------------------
> 
> From f75fdb6741fa7f20a810798007ec1ebc12886370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> 2001
> From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:51:49 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] commands/mmc_extcsd: Relicense under GPLv2+
> 
> GPLv3 is incompatible with the projects license. Relicense file
> under GPLv2+
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  commands/mmc_extcsd.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> index d7fc50697c..42adfe0860 100644
> --- a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> +++ b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>   *
>   * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
> modify
>   * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
> by
> - * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> + * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
>   * (at your option) any later version.
>   *
>   * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
> 

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