[PATCHv2] ARM: sunxi: Change device tree naming scheme for sunxi

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Dec 15 05:45:39 EST 2012


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:34:57AM +0100, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> <rant>ARM should *force* all their licensees to respect the GPL. They  
> are profiting for this immoral negligence and that puts ARM itself in  
> the same bucket.</rant>

Only the copyright holders or agents acting on their behalf have the
legal power to do that.

Also, it's not in ARMs interest to become a GPL enforcement agency for
Linux kernel - their motivation here is to sell more ARM CPUs to that
their revenue from their licenses continues to increase, and going after
people like this would be counter-productive to that goal.

However, there are organisations setup specifically to deal directly
with infringements of open source software licenses on behalf of their
copyright holders, and a number of Linux kernel copyright holders have
"signed up" with them.



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