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

[Olliver Schinagl]

Hey all,


On 09/02/2014 10:06 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> On 09/02/2014 08:21 PM, 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 Lanzendörfer <david.lanzendoerfer at o2s.ch>
>> Cc: Emilio López <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>
> Series is:
>
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
and
Acked-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>> ---
>>    arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>    1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
>> index 380f914b226d..d12d36c470bc 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi
>> @@ -2,12 +2,48 @@
>>     * Copyright 2012 Stefan Roese
>>     * Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
>>     *
>> - * 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 library 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.
>> + *
>> + *     This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + *     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.
>> + *
>> + *     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
>> + *     License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
>> + *     Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
>> + *     MA 02110-1301 USA
>> + *
>> + * Or, alternatively,
>> + *
>> + *  b) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>> + *     obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
>> + *     files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
>> + *     restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
>> + *     copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
>> + *     sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
>> + *     Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
>> + *     conditions:
>> + *
>> + *     The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>> + *     included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>> + *
>> + *     THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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>>     */
>>
>>    /include/ "skeleton.dtsi"
>>