Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: r7s9210-rza2mevb: Add support for RZ/A2M EVB

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:10 PM Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@renesas.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 30, 2018 1, Geert wrote:
> > > So in our RZ/A BSP that I release to customers I would use this dual
> > > license. You can see the exact same license in a number of dts files in
> > > mainline.
> >
> > Note that your file includes
> >
> >     #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> >     #include <dt-bindings/pinctrl/r7s9210-pinctrl.h>
> >
> > both of which are
> >
> >    include/dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >    include/dt-bindings/pinctrl/r7s9210-pinctrl.h:/*
> > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>
> After I wrote that, I realized that we'll always have:
>         #include "r7s9210.dtsi"
> Which I have as GPL-2.0....so the dual license idea in pointless.
>
> So to make things easy, I'll just drop the dual license thing and just
> use SPDX GPL-2.0

That's one solution.

Another solution would be to relicense all DT binding definitions and DTS files.
Cfr. e.g. commit d061864b89c3234b ("ARM: dt: relicense two DT binding IRQ
headers").

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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