[PATCH 3/8] ARM: dts: rockchip: relicense rk3188.dtsi under GPLv2/X11

Romain Perier romain.perier at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 06:31:10 PDT 2015


Acked-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier at gmail.com>

2015-03-06 19:04 GMT+01:00 Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>:
> 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 rk3188.dtsi to this combination.
>
> CCs were aquired by git shortlog -sne so it should've hopefully catched
> every contributor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> Cc: Julien CHAUVEAU <julien.chauveau at neo-technologies.fr>
> Cc: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani at gmail.com>
> Cc: Max Schwarz <max.schwarz at online.de>
> Cc: Romain Perier <romain.perier at gmail.com>
> ---
> I'm hoping to get Acked-by tags from the people in the Cc-list.
>
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> index 1d4d79c..0f23aed 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> @@ -2,15 +2,43 @@
>   * Copyright (c) 2013 MundoReader S.L.
>   * Author: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>   *
> - * 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.
>   *
> - * This program 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.
> + *  a) This file 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 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 "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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> + *     OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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>   */
>
>  #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> --
> 2.1.4
>



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