[PATCH] dt-binding: leds: publish common bindings under dual license

[PATCH] dt-binding: leds: publish common bindings under dual license

[Corvin Köhne]

From: Corvin Köhne <c.koehne@beckhoff.com>

Changes leds/common.h DT binding header file to be published under GPLv2
or BSD-2-Clause license terms. This change allows this common LED
bindings header file to be used in software components as bootloaders
and OSes that are not published under GPLv2 terms.

All contributors to leds/common.h file in copy.

Cc: Ashley Towns <mail@ashleytowns.id.au>
Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
Cc: Gergo Koteles <soyer@irl.hu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Cc: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick@gaikai.com>

Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Corvin Köhne <c.koehne@beckhoff.com>
---
 include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h b/include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h
index 4f017bea0123..b7bafbaf7df3 100644
--- a/include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h
+++ b/include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
 /*
  * This header provides macros for the common LEDs device tree bindings.
  *
-- 
2.47.3

Re: [PATCH] dt-binding: leds: publish common bindings under dual license

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 01:39:41PM +0200, Corvin Köhne wrote:
> From: Corvin Köhne <c.koehne@beckhoff.com>
> 
> Changes leds/common.h DT binding header file to be published under GPLv2
> or BSD-2-Clause license terms. This change allows this common LED
> bindings header file to be used in software components as bootloaders
> and OSes that are not published under GPLv2 terms.
> 
> All contributors to leds/common.h file in copy.
> 
> Cc: Ashley Towns <mail@ashleytowns.id.au>
> Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
> Cc: Gergo Koteles <soyer@irl.hu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

My only change was to put the proper SPDX line on the file, so my
opinion/change does not count here for a licensing change, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [PATCH] dt-binding: leds: publish common bindings under dual license

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 07/04/2026 13:39, Corvin Köhne wrote:
> From: Corvin Köhne <c.koehne@beckhoff.com>
> 
> Changes leds/common.h DT binding header file to be published under GPLv2
> or BSD-2-Clause license terms. This change allows this common LED
> bindings header file to be used in software components as bootloaders
> and OSes that are not published under GPLv2 terms.
> 
> All contributors to leds/common.h file in copy.
> 
> Cc: Ashley Towns <mail@ashleytowns.id.au>
> Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
> Cc: Gergo Koteles <soyer@irl.hu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Drop, adding SPDX tag was barely a copyrightable work needing
acknowledgement.

> Cc: INAGAKI Hiroshi <musashino.open@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>

You can drop this one, not a valid email anymore.

> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Drop, this was a merge.

> Cc: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Cc: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Cc: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick@gaikai.com>
> 

Cc list ends here.

> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Please drop the autogenerated scripts/get_maintainer.pl CC-entries from
commit msg. There is no single need to store automated output of
get_maintainers.pl in the git log. It can be easily re-created at any
given time, thus its presence in the git history is redundant and
obfuscates the log.

If you need it for your own patch management purposes, keep it under the
--- separator.

> Signed-off-by: Corvin Köhne <c.koehne@beckhoff.com>
> ---
>  include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 


Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>

Best regards,
Krzysztof