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

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Mon May 7 02:33:48 PDT 2018



On 07/05/18 11:31, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 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
>

ah sorry i forgot about that, let me fix it ...




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