Formal license ambiguity in arch/arm/boot/dts/sun?i-a*.dts

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Aug 3 10:59:27 PDT 2014


On Sunday 03 August 2014, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this.
> 
> From a quick grep, the issue is actually broader than just
> Allwinner. At least the following platforms seem to do the same:
>   - mvebu
>   - axm5516
>   - bcm
>   - berlin
>   - ea3250
>   - ecx-2000
>   - highbank
>   - imx / mxs
>   - lpc32xx
>   - phy3250
>   - picoxcell
>   - shmobile
>   - rockchip
>   - socfpga
>   - spear
>   - ste
>   - zynq
> 
> Would you mind sending a patch to fix all these?

I would actually prefer if we could migrate a lot of these files to BSD license,
provided the original authors agree. We want the dtb blobs to be embeddable into
boot loaders of any license.

	Arnd



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