[PATCH 1/7] arm64: dts: marvell: use SPDX-License-Identifier for Armada SoCs

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Jan 5 06:38:20 PST 2018


> > The previous license was GPL-2.0+ or X11, not GPL-2.0+ or MIT. Any
> > reason to change from X11 to MIT ?
> 
> As explained in the commit log:
> " the X11 license text [1] is explicitly for the X Consortium and has a
> couple of extra clauses. The MIT license text [2] is actually what the
> current DT files claim."
> 
> Also as I wrote it was already discussed on the mainling lists (device
> tree one and LAKML) see:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-February/489922.html

Hi Gregory

If i remember correctly, there was a reason for X11 over MIT. I think
Russell King looked into this. Maybe you can find the discussion on
the mailing list?

    Andrew



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