From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:35:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: dove: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11 In-Reply-To: <20150428155910.GD12732@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1430125744-3550-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20150428155910.GD12732@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <553FB6B4.8020401@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 28.04.2015 17:59, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: >> The current implicit GPL only licensing on the device tree makes it >> very impractical for other software components licensed under another >> license. >> >> In order to make it easier for them to reuse our device trees, >> relicense our device trees under a GPL/X11 dual-license. >> [...] >> so I decided to keep the whole relicensing in a single patch. Please send >> your Acked-by's in reply to this patch if you are happy with the relicensing. > > I normally don't include the "or later version" for my license changes > as I've only accepted to contribute under the terms of GPLv2. Ok, I guess this is a NACK for GPLv2+ but an Acked-by if we limit the GPL part to GPLv2 only? If so, is everybody else who already Acked the GPLv2+ part also fine with reducing the GPL version to "version 2 only" ? Sebastian