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

Simon Guinot
2014-12-16T13:37:19Z

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 08:03:31AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> Simon,
>
> 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.
>
> Well, I'm a bit surprised that this is the first one. :) Care to
> explain why so that we can work towards an amenable compromise?

Hi Jason,

I am also a bit surprised to be the only one :)

As I have no interest in a flame war either, I am not gonna elaborate
on this. But in a few words, I don't think that allowing a permissive
licence alternative is good for software sharing (which is important
to me).

Thanks,

Simon
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