[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11

From: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:45:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR0402MB39405B381450042AFB926CDBF1E80@AM0PR0402MB3940.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118132335.GM4660@bill-the-cat>

Hi Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:54 PM
> To: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Varun Sethi
> <V.Sethi@nxp.com>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>; Priyanka Jain
> <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>; York Sun
> <york.sun@nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under
> GPLv2+/X11
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 01:15:55PM +0000, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 6:34 PM
> > > To: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
> > > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Varun Sethi
> > > <V.Sethi@nxp.com>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>; Priyanka Jain
> > > <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>; Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>; York Sun
> > > <york.sun@nxp.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree
> > > files under
> > > GPLv2+/X11
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:43:33AM +0530, Pankaj Bansal wrote:
> > > > The current GPL only licensing on the device trees makes it very
> > > > impractical for other software components licensed under another
> > > > license.
> > > >
> > > > To make it easier to reuse them, re-license the the device trees
> > > > for Freescale (now NXP) SoCs and boards under GPLv2+/X11 dual
> license.
> > > >
> > > > Same trend is followed in linux.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>
> > > > Cc: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
> > > > Cc: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > >     V2:
> > > >     - Change license from X11 only to GPL2.0+/X11 dual license.
> > > >     - Updated the commit message accordingly.
> > >
> > > OK.  But what does the kernel have for these exact files?
> >
> > The exact same files in linux kernel are GPLv2 and X11 dual licensed.
> > Here is an excerpt from fsl-ls1043a.dtsi
> >  * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> >  * of the GPLv2 or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this
> > dual
> >  * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> >  * whole.
> >  *
> 
> OK, good.
> 
> > > If it's GPL2.0+/X11 dual, then this is just a normal sync with Linux
> > > Kernel v4.xx and you should say that in the commit message.
> >
> > I mentioned in commit message "Same trend is followed in linux."
> >
> > > If you haven't gotten these merged to a Linux Kernel release, are they in -
> next there?
> >
> > These changes are already in linux.
> 
> OK, good.  But there's
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-
> Boot/Patches#Attributing_Code_Copyrights_Sign
> and you need to say what kernel you're syncing this file against (since there
> shouldn't be anything U-Boot specific in any of these files) so it's clear for the
> next person to come along and sync them.  Thanks!
> 

I am not syncing the files from linux to u-boot. I am just changing the license similar to commit 13b2ba1a11. There is no functional change in the commit.

> --
> Tom