[PATCH 01/26] ARM: sunxi: Fix GPLv2 wording

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Nov 6 21:52:18 PST 2014


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:02:51PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This should have been in a cover letter, but I somehow forgot to send
> one...
> 
> So here it is.
> 
> You've been Cc'd on a relicensing patch, because at some point you
> contributed a patch to an Allwinner device tree.
> 
> We're currently moving toward a GPL/X11 dual-license, instead of a GPL
> license like what was done when you submitted your patches.
> 
> This is mostly so that other free software project licensed under a
> BSD-like license, such as the BSD systems, can actually use our DT,
> instead of having to rewrite them on their own.
> 
> Such license changes require the agreement of all the contributors, so
> it would be great, if you agree with the new licensing terms of
> course, that you reply to the patch by giving your acked-by.

I'm definitely fine with relicensing of any of the pieces I have done, so:

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>


-Olof



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list