[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: dove: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Apr 28 10:09:09 PDT 2015
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 06:35:00PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> On 28.04.2015 17:59, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> >>The current implicit GPL only licensing on the device tree 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.
> >>
> [...]
> >>so I decided to keep the whole relicensing in a single patch. Please send
> >>your Acked-by's in reply to this patch if you are happy with the relicensing.
> >
> >I normally don't include the "or later version" for my license changes
> >as I've only accepted to contribute under the terms of GPLv2.
>
> Ok, I guess this is a NACK for GPLv2+ but an Acked-by if we limit the
> GPL part to GPLv2 only?
>
> If so, is everybody else who already Acked the GPLv2+ part also fine
> with reducing the GPL version to "version 2 only" ?
Re-Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
thx,
Jason.
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