[PATCH 25/26] ARM: sun7i: pcduino3: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2/X11

Zoltan HERPAI wigyori at uid0.hu
Tue Nov 4 14:46:58 PST 2014


Hi Maxime,

As discussed:

Acked-by: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu>

Thanks,
-w-

Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The current GPL only licensing on the DTSI makes it very impractical for other
> software components licensed under another license.
>
> In order to make it easier for them to reuse our device trees, relicense our
> device trees under a GPL/X11 dual-license.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3.dts | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3.dts
> index 046dfc0d45d8..8dca49b2477b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-pcduino3.dts
> @@ -2,12 +2,48 @@
>   * Copyright 2014 Zoltan HERPAI
>   * Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori at uid0.hu>
>   *
> - * The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
> - * License. You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
> - * Version 2 or later at the following locations:
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> + * of the GPL or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual
> + * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> + * whole.
>   *
> - * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html
> - * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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>  
>  /dts-v1/;
>   




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