From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: f.fainelli@gmail.com (Florian Fainelli) Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 17:51:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT In-Reply-To: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> References: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20180504005102.20717-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:11:02 +0200, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: > From: Rafa? Mi?ecki > > These files were created and ever touched by a group of three people > only: Dan, Hauke and me. They were licensed under GNU/GPL or ISC. > > Introducing and discussing SPDX-License-Identifier resulted in a > conclusion that ISC is a not recommended license (see also a > license-rules.rst). Moveover an old e-mail from Alan Cox was pointed > which explained that dual licensing is a safer solution than depending > on a common compatibility belief. > > This commit switches most of BCM5301X DTS files to dual licensing using: > 1) GPL 2.0+ to make sure they are compatible with Linux kernel > 2) MIT to allow sharing with more permissive projects > Both licenses belong to the preferred ones (see LICENSES/preferred/). > > An attempt to relicense remaining files will be made separately and will > require approve from more/other developers. > > Signed-off-by: Rafa? Mi?ecki > --- Applied to devicetree/next, thanks! -- Florian