[PATCH 26/26] ARM: sun8i: q8h: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2/X11
Chen-Yu Tsai
wens at csie.org
Fri Oct 17 06:48:48 PDT 2014
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> 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: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
For the series.
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-ippo-q8h-v5.dts | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-ippo-q8h-v5.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-ippo-q8h-v5.dts
> index e9b8cca8dcc1..7f2117ce6985 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-ippo-q8h-v5.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a23-ippo-q8h-v5.dts
> @@ -3,12 +3,48 @@
> *
> * Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> *
> - * 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:
> + * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> + * 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
> + * a) This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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> + *
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> */
>
> /dts-v1/;
> --
> 2.1.1
>
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