From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: Formal license ambiguity in arch/arm/boot/dts/sun?i-a*.dts Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:02:02 +0200 Message-ID: <353751667.DmppNpqdli@wuerfel> References: <20140731192016.GA6869@excalibur.cnev.de> <5405B986.2080407@redhat.com> <20140902125116.GW15297@lukather> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140902125116.GW15297@lukather> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Maxime Ripard Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Hans de Goede , 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 On Tuesday 02 September 2014 14:51:16 Maxime Ripard wrote: > 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. > > > > 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? libfdt uses BSD license, which would be a reason to use the same for the dts files. Other than that, I don't think it matters either way. Arnd -- 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