[PATCH] dt-bindings: mtd: Fix nand-controller.yaml license

Maxime Ripard mripard at kernel.org
Mon Jun 26 04:16:20 PDT 2023


On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 03:05:08PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > Binding files should be dual licensed, this file was writtent with the
> > idea in mind of following the rules, but the SPDX tag did not reflect
> > that correctly. Fix the tag so we are sure this file is licensed
> > correctly.
> 
> Yes, we do want dual license, but things converted from txt bindings 
> need those authors' permission as the txt bindings are all implicitly 
> GPLv2. That didn't happen here, so we kept the default implicit license. 
> Looks like this case is all Bootlin authors for significant parts of the 
> original txt binding, so you should be good on that part (assuming your 
> employer agrees). Maxime did the schema, so need his permission too.

I'm not sure how redundant it is with what Thomas just said, but for
that patch and any license change from GPL to GPL+BSD-2-Clause:

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>

Maxime
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