Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: BCM5301X: Relicense most DTS files to the GPL 2.0+ / MIT | Date | Thu, 3 May 2018 17:51:02 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2 May 2018 16:11:02 +0200, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> > > These files were created and ever touched by a group of three people > only: Dan, Hauke and me. They were licensed under GNU/GPL or ISC. > > Introducing and discussing SPDX-License-Identifier resulted in a > conclusion that ISC is a not recommended license (see also a > license-rules.rst). Moveover an old e-mail from Alan Cox was pointed > which explained that dual licensing is a safer solution than depending > on a common compatibility belief. > > This commit switches most of BCM5301X DTS files to dual licensing using: > 1) GPL 2.0+ to make sure they are compatible with Linux kernel > 2) MIT to allow sharing with more permissive projects > Both licenses belong to the preferred ones (see LICENSES/preferred/). > > An attempt to relicense remaining files will be made separately and will > require approve from more/other developers. > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> > ---
Applied to devicetree/next, thanks! -- Florian
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