From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxime Ripard Subject: Re: Formal license ambiguity in arch/arm/boot/dts/sun?i-a*.dts Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:25:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20140804192510.GF3952@lukather> References: <20140731192016.GA6869@excalibur.cnev.de> <20140803130430.GY3952@lukather> <201408031959.27607.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/A+0zda39IeytcGG" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201408031959.27607.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Karsten Merker , Hans de Goede , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Olof Johansson , khilman-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --/A+0zda39IeytcGG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 07:59:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2014, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Thanks for reporting this. > >=20 > > From a quick grep, the issue is actually broader than just > > Allwinner. At least the following platforms seem to do the same: > > - mvebu > > - axm5516 > > - bcm > > - berlin > > - ea3250 > > - ecx-2000 > > - highbank > > - imx / mxs > > - lpc32xx > > - phy3250 > > - picoxcell > > - shmobile > > - rockchip > > - socfpga > > - spear > > - ste > > - zynq > >=20 > > Would you mind sending a patch to fix all these? >=20 > I would actually prefer if we could migrate a lot of these files to BSD l= icense, > provided the original authors agree. We want the dtb blobs to be embeddab= le into > boot loaders of any license. Even though I'd be open to having my contributions to DTBs under the BSD, is this really a thing? I mean, for all I know, an OS/Bootloader would just parse a documented binary file, and I don't see any derivative work there. The same argument could be made for example for u-boot modifying a DTB I guess. Maxime --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com --/A+0zda39IeytcGG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT394WAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgzXkP/jRz6iE4O89bnLiCiFe6Ewku fsZc5VlecZmqhrJQzGciGZEVvxs+7yJJ8A+9JZhvf6Uon0Q1JcKjnJco6TBqDbsc kxbXJPhUEm9X4jsqvCTZSCMRNusivDs48EgJC5gEWQL3QqEPInbzrPsdL0v5jGka H6zFjJhv3uK1oC2Nlz8iUiBhwU6UYW69G/D3siyTo6sqqIlvK036Yyo1BDZFCyAS upZpnHeXykIb+LgjZufVCdCdh/2Y2QehtoyBw+g/YwI3wHVxxrpIuuU5ZNcq+K1S J8zJcjs6DcjdyN9dZLjgq7n1QJvR1V0nDuqXcgd8uzQjPMT06Jjmb/HhNW9tLMTR aoPF9M1O/SNXuUKhCRLQjobHjfvkYFeQYIPZegz2ScW43/e+o2tuHDrtXnfxxi11 DXXWSo4mDZeG7Nzo0IbjY/s6IydimsZ4ETKGPIfRrUmZ4WOwQylgklaUpF4fe5g6 f38QoxIvpP/hP6V4KKTFPUmHFL+Slvt+6y72OSamzBERTUebYhx2EXf2khYkxNwx TdGXNptngUIMqCxNsbkbnhBXylBW1z9SyNpNLstSmGAcIlFYmKbI9vPKtzpOYpdQ roqLKVV4H2IRRvDB8Mz9cC2RzhPHXZP70IwwN6zA5rWJX7qHe6hixkyxWKykzsW3 E0dXjf9JQdgwb3CiUS8g =v45e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/A+0zda39IeytcGG-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html