From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Cc: Robert Foss <robert.foss@linaro.org>,
agross@kernel.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
krzk+dt@kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] dt-bindings: clock: qcom: Relicense to GPL2 + BSD
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:31:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220601213139.GA478939-robh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YofgAd/nAejaATli@gerhold.net>
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 08:37:53PM +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 02:44:47PM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
> > Qualcomm has given permission for all the dt-bindings to be dual
> > licensed. All of the Linaro authored bindings are easy to change, in
> > terms of the permissions & copyrights, so they've been bundled in this
> > commit.
> >
> > Additionally clean up the syntax of some of the copyright statements.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >
> > There are more Qcom bindings that should have the license updated
> > to GPL2+BSD, but since they haven't been authored or copyrighted
> > by Linaro, I think I'll have to hunt down the authors individually.
> >
> > include/dt-bindings/clock/qcom,gcc-msm8998.h | 2 +-
> > include/dt-bindings/clock/qcom,rpmcc.h | 2 +-
> > include/dt-bindings/clock/qcom,rpmh.h | 6 ++++--
> >
>
> At least these 3 have contributors outside Qualcomm and Linaro.
> Doesn't this mean you would still need to contact all of them
> and see if they are fine with relicensing their contribution?
Yes. Though I think you could draw the line at some number of lines.
This is what I use to get # of lines by email:
git blame -e include/dt-bindings/clock/qcom,rpmcc.h | sed -e 's/.*<\(.*\)>.*/\1/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
> I don't want to make this more complicated than necessary, but it's
> probably better to be careful when it comes to licensing stuff...
>
> (Although personally I think it feels a bit weird to discuss copyright
> for a bunch of "numbered names"...)
Indeed.
Rob
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-20 12:44 [PATCH v1] dt-bindings: clock: qcom: Relicense to GPL2 + BSD Robert Foss
2022-05-20 18:37 ` Stephan Gerhold
2022-06-01 21:31 ` Rob Herring [this message]
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