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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	"Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@hauke-m.de>, "Dan Haab" <dhaab@luxul.com>,
	"Dan Haab" <riproute@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jon Mason" <jonmason@broadcom.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT
Date: Thu,  3 May 2018 17:51:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504005102.20717-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com>

On Wed,  2 May 2018 16:11:02 +0200, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> These files were created and ever touched by a group of three people
> only: Dan, Hauke and me. They were licensed under GNU/GPL or ISC.
> 
> Introducing and discussing SPDX-License-Identifier resulted in a
> conclusion that ISC is a not recommended license (see also a
> license-rules.rst). Moveover an old e-mail from Alan Cox was pointed
> which explained that dual licensing is a safer solution than depending
> on a common compatibility belief.
> 
> This commit switches most of BCM5301X DTS files to dual licensing using:
> 1) GPL 2.0+ to make sure they are compatible with Linux kernel
> 2) MIT to allow sharing with more permissive projects
> Both licenses belong to the preferred ones (see LICENSES/preferred/).
> 
> An attempt to relicense remaining files will be made separately and will
> require approve from more/other developers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> ---

Applied to devicetree/next, thanks!
--
Florian

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-04  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-02 14:11 [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT Rafał Miłecki
2018-05-02 14:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-02 19:37 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2018-05-02 20:39   ` Rip Route
2018-05-02 19:52 ` Dan HAAB
2018-05-02 20:52 ` Rip Route
2018-05-04  0:51 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]

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