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

Gregory CLEMENT
2015-01-26T10:13:28Z

On 26/01/2015 11:11, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:38:16PM +0000, 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>
>
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>

Great!

Thanks!

>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> 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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