From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli 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 Message-ID: <20180504005102.20717-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> References: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180502141102.31769-1-zajec5@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, =?iso-8859-2?q?Rafa=B3_Mi=B3ecki?= , Hauke Mehrtens , Dan Haab , Dan Haab Cc: Jon Mason , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Luis R . Rodriguez" , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , =?iso-8859-2?q?Rafa=B3_Mi=B3ecki?= List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:11:02 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki > > 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 > --- Applied to devicetree/next, thanks! -- Florian