[PATCH 08/27] ARM: mvebu: armada-370-xp: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11

Simon Guinot
2014-12-18T17:56:46Z

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:22:21AM +0100, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:38:16PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > The current 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.
> >
> > Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > Cc: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
> > Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
> > Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
> > Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
> > Cc: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
> > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Hi Gregory,
>
> NAK for me.

After some thoughts I changed my mind about this. I can't see no point
in forcing people to rewrite a commit for a single line which is even
not covered by my copyright...

Then, for the armada-370-xp.dtsi file:

Acked-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org>

Simon

> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi
> > index 1af428602748..8a322ad57e5f 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi
> > @@ -8,9 +8,43 @@
> > * Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> > * Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
> > *
> > - * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > - * License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
> > - * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
> > + * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> > + * of the GPL or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual
> > + * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> > + * whole.
> > + *
> > + * a) This file 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 2 of the
> > + * License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > + *
> > + * This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + *
> > + * Or, alternatively
> > + *
> > + * b) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> > + * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
> > + * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
> > + * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use
> > + * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
> > + * sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> > + * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
> > + * conditions:
> > + *
> > + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> > + * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> > + *
> > + * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED , WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
> > + * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
> > + * OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> > + * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
> > + * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY
> > + * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> > + * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> > + * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> > *
> > * This file contains the definitions that are common to the Armada
> > * 370 and Armada XP SoC.
> > --
> > 1.9.1

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