[PATCH v2 3/4] ARM: dts: vf610-cosmic: relicense vf610-cosmic.dts under GPLv2/X11

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Wed Dec 16 15:42:50 PST 2015


Hi Matt,

Any chance to get an Ack from you for this patch?

--
Stefan

On 2015-12-07 13:51, Stefan Agner wrote:
> 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 vf610-twr.dts file to this combination.
> 
> CCs were acquired using (updated some email addresses):
> git shortlog -sne --no-merges arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts
> 
> CC: Matt Porter <mporter at kernel.crashing.org>
> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Cory Tusar <cory.tusar at pid1solutions.com>
> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts
> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts
> index 5447f25..d0559c1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/vf610-cosmic.dts
> @@ -2,10 +2,42 @@
>   * Copyright 2013 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
>   * Copyright 2013 Linaro Limited
>   *
> - * 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
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> + *     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
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>   */
>  
>  /dts-v1/;



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