[PATCH 15/26] ARM: sun6i: app4: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2/X11

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 24 00:05:43 PDT 2014


On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:38:37 +0200
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>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>

> Cc: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dts | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dts
> index 2bbf8867362b..c74a63a39531 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31-app4-evb1.dts
> @@ -3,12 +3,48 @@
>   *
>   * Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
>   *
> - * The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
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>   *
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>  
>  /dts-v1/;



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