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: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:51:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20140902125116.GW15297@lukather> References: <20140731192016.GA6869@excalibur.cnev.de> <20140803130430.GY3952@lukather> <201408031959.27607.arnd@arndb.de> <20140804192510.GF3952@lukather> <20140804212317.GL30282@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140807132023.GG15297@lukather> <20140902102206.GU15297@lukather> <20140902104002.GN30401@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140902122716.GV15297@lukather> <5405B986.2080407@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+GPapXTpahFv7+Fr" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5405B986.2080407-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , Hans de Goede Cc: devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, khilman-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Karsten Merker , Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org --+GPapXTpahFv7+Fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:35:18PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > So I guess like Chen-Yu suggested that we should change the license of > > the DTSI first, and then the DTS. Otherwise, it wouldn't work very > > well, I guess you can't really relicense a GPL-only file. >=20 > IANAL, but mixing MIT (which I suggest use as the other license) and GPL > files in one binary (the generated dtb file) is fine AFAIK, this happens > all the time. The resulting binary is simple GPL licensed. So it would > make sense to start with dual licensing new boards right away even before > the dtsi has been relicensed. It won't make any practical difference > until the dtsi is relicensed, but it means less work later on. So you're allowed to licence derivative work of a GPL-licenced file under both the GPL and another licence? And as far as MIT vs BSD is concerned, I don't really have an opinion. Arnd? Russell? --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com --+GPapXTpahFv7+Fr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUBb1EAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgILUQALFEbJ75oEEexI75qpLxOHuV luE9YTILsMTLEDWTzhuXjU8E6i00xO7z6Lj/Z3GyiEdcdA7J+AgZNNesJIQjNEY1 mzjAtqiOK2aDQtERPquxM3dvraaaKRzIWtZrS29xgT+sus5i6KeNPZ0OAmorXT4Y b4zBmWXBE/5JyG0dxKT9x7TH0Hfbcr50MfilpRBtZ2vHOjQe0ILrHfKP6SSsUuMT Pqx5EhCSK/scVyLTexc6s6zY8gmUOJ2i71g0LfeqPFocvzKBn7s0sFDSaCpAvkqC 3q4OJyzYoKAlbIUwdOK5fz+PUO6/CRmzLUXCAHeHF0cwsUZSnlKYYrR9q4rIGI2f Dpdqqe0R3sHVsQJazfnej2JIwwaSsiByP/K+t84a66vOcljci2fJTRWAKC47yHXT tYD22ZwD6fIL8QmxOUEYdj6cju60ksGkjGI0/ND4J7dlywVz3mniDiy7+gP+o1uG AGZZodA/Xx8Iucpr2uVQrHiFpiuYTZx7Q/pd6gui1IIxWiHxzV9iKGE2lll4BccD kAyBy0uApcHhfJ+NB7AFn0J9BfxcqJI+1yy5O1+Yp9qDj8ylXSjSUQ0YSLmnjUBv 1Hx0L/3AHIXQoOKJW7MzSzYyxfuduZ/t3htG9p+v9KlEQP7Exky675XSko3vpXlh EldgdHjqzBlx6WIbjuJh =oeMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+GPapXTpahFv7+Fr-- -- 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