Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:57:16 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence |
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On Mon 2015-05-25 02:14:28, Rob Landley wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> wrote: > > I've added licensing@fsf.ogrg in Cc: in my previous message to have an > > advice on this subject, but I failed to notice licensing@fsf.org > > is not a mailing list: I was assigned request ID [gnu.org #1017262]. > > > > Regards. > > They're also not an unbiased source. Their job is to reply "you should > license it under GPLv3" without actually looking at your message. > (This is a slight oversimplification, they may instead recomend the > GFDL. They will never _not_ recommend one of their licenses.)
Actually, I got FSF to change license on piece of code from GPLv2 to LGPLv2 before. They are not completely evil :-).
> Personally, I'm sad we're starting to get ACPI for arm but if device > tree data files are only available under GPL, people will hold their > nose and deploy ACPI.
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