[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] ath79: relicense DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT
Felix Fietkau
nbd at nbd.name
Mon May 7 01:46:33 PDT 2018
On 2018-05-07 09:47, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> Some maintainers prefer DTS files licensed under permissive license like
> MIT / BSD. As all DT bindings should be OS independent and DTS files are
> pretty separated from Linux code it probably makes sense to share them
> across projects.
>
> The safest solution is to use dual licensing: that way it stays clear
> these files can be used in GPL projects without depending on current
> belief of licenses compatibility.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
Some of these files are based on upstream GPL code, did you contact the
original authors already?
- Felix
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