[PATCH 01/26] ARM: sunxi: Fix GPLv2 wording

Roman Byshko rbyshko at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 15:46:18 PDT 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This should have been in a cover letter, but I somehow forgot to send
> one...
>
> So here it is.
>
> You've been Cc'd on a relicensing patch, because at some point you
> contributed a patch to an Allwinner device tree.
>
> We're currently moving toward a GPL/X11 dual-license, instead of a GPL
> license like what was done when you submitted your patches.
>
> This is mostly so that other free software project licensed under a
> BSD-like license, such as the BSD systems, can actually use our DT,
> instead of having to rewrite them on their own.
>
> Such license changes require the agreement of all the contributors, so
> it would be great, if you agree with the new licensing terms of
> course, that you reply to the patch by giving your acked-by.

Acked-By: Roman Byshko <rbyshko at gmail.com>

> Thanks a lot,
> Maxime
>
> --
> Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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