[PATCH 1/5] ARM: sun4i: Relicense the A10 DTSI under GPLv2/X11

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 7 13:13:19 PDT 2014


Hi Lorenzo,

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:21:29AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> sorry for the delay in repling.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:38:21AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi Lorenzo,
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:21:05PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > The current GPL only licensing on the DTSI makes it very impractical for other
> > > software components licensed under another license.
> > > 
> > > In order to make it easier for them to reuse our device trees, relicense our
> > > DTSI first under a GPL/X11 dual-license. Hopefully, the DTS will follow soon.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> > > Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo.caione at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> > > Cc: David Lanzend?rfer <david.lanzendoerfer at o2s.ch>
> > > Cc: Emilio L?pez <emilio at elopez.com.ar>
> > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> > > Cc: Oliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
> > > Cc: Roman Byshko <rbyshko at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> > 
> > We need your approval for this license change, otherwise we won't be
> > able to merge it.
> > 
> > What's your feeling about this?
> 
> My feeling does not matter much here, I have to ask for approval and to
> be honest I am not in a position to provide you with a firm date/time for
> this to happen, I will try to get an answer asap.

Thanks for the update.

Let us know when you have such an answer :)

Thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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