[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] ath79: relicense DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon May 7 02:31:11 PDT 2018


On 7 May 2018 at 10:46, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> 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?

I wasn't aware of that. I assumed they are all John's work based on
our quick IRC conversation:
[09:08] <rmilecki> blogic: are you author for
target/linux/ath79/dts/*.dts files?
[09:08] <rmilecki> *of
[09:14] <blogic> rmilecki: yes
[09:14] <blogic> rmilecki: feel free to change the license text and push a fix

-- 
Rafał



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