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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, Varun Sethi <V.Sethi@nxp.com>,
	Udit Kumar <udit.kumar@nxp.com>, Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: using interrupt controller dt-bindings macros in Non GPL dts files
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181022082906.GE7068@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0402MB3323967BD6C0E11C738BFF38F1F40@HE1PR0402MB3323.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:48:28AM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a query about include/dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h and include/dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h files.
> I would like to use these header files in NON-GPL (X11 Licensed) dts/dtsi files, to use the macros defined in these header files in our dts/dtsi files.
> 
>   1.  Does including the GPL header files for macros (NON executable code) in NON-GPL files, causes the license of NON-GPL file to be contaminated with GPL code?

Why are you asking developers legal questions?  Would you ask us medical
questions as well?  :)

Seriously, go talk to your corporate lawyers, they know the answers to
this, it's not very complex.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-22  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22  3:48 using interrupt controller dt-bindings macros in Non GPL dts files Pankaj Bansal
2018-10-22  3:56 ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-10-22  8:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-10-22  9:18   ` Pankaj Bansal
2018-10-22 10:34     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-23 19:10       ` Li Yang
2018-10-23 19:39         ` Stephen Warren
2018-10-23 21:39           ` Stephen Warren
2018-10-23 22:31             ` Li Yang
2018-10-24  9:27             ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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