[PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: dts: vf610: relicense vf???.dtsi under GPLv2/X11

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Mon Dec 7 13:51:13 PST 2015


GPLv2-only devicetrees make reuse difficult for software components
licensed under a different license.

The consensus is that a GPL/X11 dual-license should allow all necessary
uses, so relicense the vfxxx.dtsi, vf500.dtsi and vf610.dtsi files to
this combination.

CCs were acquired using (updated some email addresses, commented out
bouncing email addresses with --):
git shortlog -sne --no-merges arch/arm/boot/dts/vf???.dtsi

--CC: Chao Fu <B44548 at freescale.com>
CC: Cosmin Stoica <cosminstefan.stoica at freescale.com>
CC: Frank Li <Frank.Li at freescale.com>
CC: Fugang Duan <B38611 at freescale.com>
--CC: Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com>
--CC: Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu at freescale.com>
--CC: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo at freescale.com>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Cory Tusar <cory.tusar at pid1solutions.com>
Acked-by: Sanchayan Maity <maitysanchayan at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bhuvanchandra DV <bhuvanchandra.dv at toradex.com>
Acked-by: Yuan Yao <yao.yuan at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/vf500.dtsi | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610.dtsi | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf500.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf500.dtsi
index e976d2f..b94b992 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf500.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf500.dtsi
@@ -1,10 +1,42 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2013 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
- * This program 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 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.
+ *
+ *  a) This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *     version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ *     This file 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.
+ *
+ * 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 , 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
+ *     HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY
+ *     WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ *     FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+ *     OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
 #include "skeleton.dtsi"
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610.dtsi
index 5f8eb1b..c172285 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610.dtsi
@@ -1,10 +1,42 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2013 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
- * This program 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 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.
+ *
+ *  a) This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *     version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ *     This file 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.
+ *
+ * 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 , 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
+ *     HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY
+ *     WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ *     FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+ *     OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
 #include "vf500.dtsi"
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi
index 6736bae..9875e1b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vfxxx.dtsi
@@ -1,10 +1,42 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2013 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
- * This program 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 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.
+ *
+ *  a) This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *     version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ *     This file 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.
+ *
+ * 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 , 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
+ *     HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY
+ *     WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ *     FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+ *     OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 
 #include "vf610-pinfunc.h"
-- 
2.6.3




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