GPLv3 file in barebox

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Feb 28 23:04:54 PST 2017


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Daniel Schultz wrote:
> Acked-by: Daniel Schultz <d.schultz at phytec.de>

Thanks. Applied now with your ack.

Sascha

> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> With best regards,
>   Daniel Schultz
> 
> Am 09.02.2017 um 10:53 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > We have found that commands/mmc_extcsd.c is licensed under GPLv3 which
> > is incompatible to the barebox GPLv2 license. Are you ok with
> > relicensing this file? Otherwise we would have to remove it from
> > barebox.
> > If you're ok with relicensing the file please just ack the following
> > patch.
> > 
> > Sascha
> > 
> > ---------------------------------8<----------------------------
> > 
> > From f75fdb6741fa7f20a810798007ec1ebc12886370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:51:49 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] commands/mmc_extcsd: Relicense under GPLv2+
> > 
> > GPLv3 is incompatible with the projects license. Relicense file
> > under GPLv2+
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  commands/mmc_extcsd.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> > index d7fc50697c..42adfe0860 100644
> > --- a/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> > +++ b/commands/mmc_extcsd.c
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >   *
> >   * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> >   * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > - * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> > + * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
> >   * (at your option) any later version.
> >   *
> >   * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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