[PATCH 8/8] ARM: dts: berlin2cd: add Valve Steam Link board

Jisheng Zhang Jisheng.Zhang at synaptics.com
Wed Mar 14 00:43:23 PDT 2018


On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:22:11 +0300 Alexander Monakov wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> 
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright 2018 Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gmail.com>
> > > + *
> > > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)  
> > 
> > Mind to license it under GPL2 or X11?  
> 
> MIT is the same as X11 but without the references to the X Consortium that
> do not make sense in the kernel context: please see [1] and [2]. The MIT
> license is present under LICENSES/preferred in the kernel tree, but not the
> X11 license.

Understood.

> 
> The berlin2cd.dtsi file first says "the X11 license", but then the actual
> license text appearing in the file is the MIT license.

Yes, I'll send patches to add SPDX tags to all berlin SoC dtsi and s/X11/MIT.

Thanks for pointing this out.

> 
> [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
> [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/X11.html
> 
> > Other source usually tag as:
> > // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR X11)
> > 
> > And the tag is put into the first line, could we keep the style?  
> 
> Right. With the clarification regarding X11/MIT above, I'll change to
> 
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
> // Copyright 2018 Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gmail.com>
> 
> Is that okay?

Yes, it's OK.



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