[PATCH 1/5] ARM: sun4i: Relicense the A10 DTSI under GPLv2/X11

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Mon Oct 6 03:21:29 PDT 2014


Hi Maxime,

sorry for the delay in repling.

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:38:21AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:21:05PM +0200, 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
> > DTSI first under a GPL/X11 dual-license. Hopefully, the DTS will follow soon.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo.caione at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> > Cc: David Lanzend?rfer <david.lanzendoerfer at o2s.ch>
> > Cc: Emilio L?pez <emilio at elopez.com.ar>
> > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> > Cc: Oliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
> > Cc: Roman Byshko <rbyshko at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> 
> We need your approval for this license change, otherwise we won't be
> able to merge it.
> 
> What's your feeling about this?

My feeling does not matter much here, I have to ask for approval and to
be honest I am not in a position to provide you with a firm date/time for
this to happen, I will try to get an answer asap.

Thanks,
Lorenzo




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