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

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Tue Sep 2 18:50:56 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Olliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl> wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>

>>> ---
>>>    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,
>>> + *     EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
>>> + *     OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>>> + *     NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
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>>>     */
>>>
>>>    /include/ "skeleton.dtsi"
>>>
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