[PATCH 03/26] ARM: sun4i: a1000: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2/X11

Olliver Schinagl oliver at schinagl.nl
Mon Oct 20 06:04:34 PDT 2014


Hey Maxime,

Acked-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>

For the whole dts licensing series.

Also herby I grant permission to allow further dtsi submissions made by 
me to be dual-licensed by you.

Olliver

On 17-10-14 11:38, 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: Carlo Caione <carlo at caione.org>
> Acked-by: Emilio López <emilio at elopez.com.ar>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> Cc: Oliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
> Cc: Roman Byshko <rbyshko at gmail.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts
> index 9e99ade35e37..3bcfd81837f0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-a1000.dts
> @@ -3,12 +3,48 @@
>    *
>    * Emilio López <emilio at elopez.com.ar>
>    *
> - * 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
> + *     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
> + *     License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + *
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> + *     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + *     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> + *     GNU General Public License for more details.
> + *
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> + *
> + * Or, alternatively,
> + *
> + *  b) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
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> + *     Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
> + *     conditions:
> + *
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>    */
>   
>   /dts-v1/;




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