[PATCH 08/27] ARM: mvebu: armada-370-xp: Relicense the device tree under GPLv2+/X11

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Dec 16 12:09:38 PST 2014


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 08:03:04PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:55:50PM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > Agreed.  We should keep in mind that once we have heard from everybody
> > (big if), that is still only representative of armada and maybe mvebu
> > ecosystem. :(  I'm starting to lean even more towards #2...
> 
> Except I know that there are people out there who want to ship the
> source files with their project.
> 
> The DT source files are integrated into the mainline Linux kernel, and
> not everyone wants to download the Linux kernel source just to be able
> to build the DT files for their non-Linux project.

This is why Ian created the devicetree repository:

  http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/ianc/device-tree-rebasing.git;a=tree

Barebox has been using this for several months at least.  That removes
the logistical hurdle, at least.

thx,

Jason.



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