From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pankaj Bansal Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:02:58 +0000 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under GPLv2+/X11 In-Reply-To: <20180119170320.GX4660@bill-the-cat> References: <1516070034-1532-1-git-send-email-pankaj.bansal@nxp.com> <1516248813-26257-1-git-send-email-pankaj.bansal@nxp.com> <20180118130357.GJ4660@bill-the-cat> <20180118132335.GM4660@bill-the-cat> <20180119170320.GX4660@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Rini [mailto:trini at konsulko.com] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 10:33 PM > To: York Sun > Cc: Pankaj Bansal ; u-boot at lists.denx.de; > albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Varun Sethi ; Leo Li > ; Priyanka Jain ; Mingkai Hu > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: Freescale: re-license device tree files under > GPLv2+/X11 > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:01:14PM +0000, York Sun wrote: > > On 01/18/2018 06:45 AM, Pankaj Bansal wrote: > > >> > > >> 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, > > > > This is the case I explained in another email. These dts files are a > > subset of the those in Linux. This patch is not syncing with Linux to > > get the identical files, but to change the license to GPLv2 and X11. > > > > We have been maintaining these dts files in U-Boot and they have been > > different from Linux from the beginning. If you don't disagree, I tend > > to accept this patch for dual licensing. > > OK. While I would encourage use of the same dts in both cases, it's not my > maintenance burden here, so if that's how you want to go, that's OK with > me. And so long as only NXP/Freescale/etc people have made changes to the > dts/dtsi files, it would be fine for NXP/Freescale/etc to update the license > terms. Thanks Tom. I have checked in git logs that freescale/nxp employees are the only one who have made changes to these dts/dtsi files. Can you please merge these changes in mainline ? Thanks & Regards, Pankaj Bansal > > -- > Tom