[PATCH] platform: andes: Fix license to compatible GPL

[Jessica Clarke]

On 28 Jul 2025, at 05:55, Xiang W <wxjstz at 126.com> wrote:
> 
> Since platform/generic/include/andes/andes.h and
> platform/generic/include/andes/andes_pma.h are licensed under the
> GPL, any C files that use them should also be modified to comply
> with the GPL. Otherwise, there may be potential legal issues.

Firstly, that’s not how licenses work. The combined work is GPL, but
that doesn’t mean these files are. They can be BSD, and should be,
because that’s what they were contributed under.

Secondly, why are there GPL’ed files in OpenSBI? It’s a BSD-licensed
project, and anything else* is problematic for vendors. Especially for
source files that are included by default in the generic platform build.

So a hard NAK from me, and a call to delete the GPL’ed Andes files or
replace them with BSD-licensed ones (which can just be getting the
author(s) to relicense them). I doubt there’s anything interesting in
them anyway.

Jess

* Well, anything copyleft / non-permissive

> Signed-off-by: Xiang W <wxjstz at 126.com>
> ---
> platform/generic/andes/ae350.c     | 2 +-
> platform/generic/andes/andes_pmu.c | 2 +-
> platform/generic/andes/andes_sbi.c | 2 +-
> platform/generic/andes/sleep.S     | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/platform/generic/andes/ae350.c b/platform/generic/andes/ae350.c
> index f06e207d..880d5803 100644
> --- a/platform/generic/andes/ae350.c
> +++ b/platform/generic/andes/ae350.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2022 Andes Technology Corporation
>  *
> diff --git a/platform/generic/andes/andes_pmu.c b/platform/generic/andes/andes_pmu.c
> index 9eee4edc..6099a73b 100644
> --- a/platform/generic/andes/andes_pmu.c
> +++ b/platform/generic/andes/andes_pmu.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> /*
>  * andes_pmu.c - Andes PMU device callbacks and platform overrides
>  *
> diff --git a/platform/generic/andes/andes_sbi.c b/platform/generic/andes/andes_sbi.c
> index f68ac908..6c155e10 100644
> --- a/platform/generic/andes/andes_sbi.c
> +++ b/platform/generic/andes/andes_sbi.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> /*
>  * Copyright (C) 2023 Renesas Electronics Corp.
>  *
> diff --git a/platform/generic/andes/sleep.S b/platform/generic/andes/sleep.S
> index 361aff3a..967fdaef 100644
> --- a/platform/generic/andes/sleep.S
> +++ b/platform/generic/andes/sleep.S
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2023 Andes Technology Corporation
>  *
> -- 
> 2.47.2
> 
> 
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